Marny Reakes is passionate about recycling waste to produce energy and other useful materials. In this video she explains this passion, particularly in the context of mining and industrial processes, highlighting:
- The vast amount of waste produced in mining operations (e.g., 99.5% waste for 0.5% copper extraction)
- The opportunities to repurpose mining waste for various applications (e.g., concrete for our roads, metal extraction, construction materials etc)
Marny emphasises there's no one big silver bullet to solving environmental problems - instead we need multiple small innovations and she talks about the creative approaches to waste processing emerging from New Zealand and their potential global impact.
