If you are interested to see how the principles of the urban mine could be applied to a real world example, have a look at the following case study:

How recyclable is the Fairphone 2?

This case study looks at the recyclability of the Fairphone 2. The authors observe three common recycling processes and investigate which and how much material can be recovered from the Fairphone 2. As you will see, the potential of the urban mine does not only depend on what is in the products that we look at, but also which technologies are used to recover the metals from them.