Kiwi e-waste firm signs deal with global laptop giant HP to recycle copper

Kiwi e-waste firm signs deal with global laptop giant HP to recycle copper

Auckland’s Mint Innovation has lined up another significant chunk of offshore business, even as it still has no plans for operations in its home market. The...

HP is mining its own e-waste to build its latest laptops

Recycling startup Mint Innovation partnered with the tech giant to make the industry's first batch of closed-loop recycled copper from old HP computers and printers.

Mint, HP close loop on recycled copper

Mint Innovation says it has produced the first certified batch of closed-loop recycled copper returned to a specific electronics product line, working with HP Inc. to recover metal from end-of-life printed circuit boards for reuse in new laptops. The Sydney-based facility processed HP electronics scrap to produce high-purity copper sheets that were incorporated into HP EliteBook X G2 Series laptops and HP EliteBoard G1a Next Gen AI PC models unv…