Login

Book a demo

Join the Urban Mining Alliance — Be Part of a Future of Infinite Resources.

Urban areas are full of untapped resources — in buildings, electronics, infrastructure, and everyday waste. Recovering these materials isn’t just an environmental necessity — it’s an opportunity to create a more resilient, circular economy.

At Upcyclea and Urban Mining Alliance, we believe that no single actor can drive this change alone. That’s why we’re building a network of cities, companies, researchers, innovators, and citizens — working together to unlock the full potential of urban mining.

By joining the Alliance, you will:

  • Collaborate with cross-sector partners on innovative projects

  • Access tools, data, and best practices to support your initiatives

  • Stay informed on policy, research, and technology developments

  • Contribute to building scalable, sustainable resource loops

  • Be part of a community driving the transition toward urban circularity

Whether you’re a local authority, startup, researcher, NGO, or industrial player — your expertise and energy are needed.

Contact us

Urban Mining Alliance (UMA) is a non-profit organisation that brings together public, private, academic, and civil society stakeholders committed to recovering valuable resources from urban waste.

UMA mission is to promote a unified approach to urban mining by fostering collaboration, technological innovation, data sharing, and the development of circular value chains at both local and international levels.

UMA members in Europe:

France
in partnership with USH, ULI France and ADI.

More...

London
in partnership with City of London and Maconda.

More...

UMA members in Asia:

Japan
in partnership with Obayashi and Osaka expo 2025.

More news to come soon.

Our solutions to make global Urban Mining possible

Resource Mapping & Inventory
AI-based Data Management
Reuse & Upcycling Network

Resource Mapping & Inventory Solutions.

  • These solutions are powered by Upcyclea, and include:
  • Urban Resource Mapping: GIS (Geographic Information System) functions to locate and quantify material stocks in cities/regions for reuse or upcycling (e.g., copper in cables, glass/aluminum in window frames).
  • Digital Product Passports / Building Passports: Digital documents listing the materials and components within a product or building to enable future reuse or upcycling.
  • Reuse Marketplaces: Online inventory where recovered or surplus materials are listed, compared, and sold by partner marketplaces..
Book a demo to discover Upcyclea solutions

AI-based Resource Management Solutions.

  • These solutions are powered by Upcyclea, and include:​
  • Material traceability: AI-based functions that automatically match resource supply and demand, and offer traceable and mesurable reuse/upcycling ecosystems.
  • Data management and Smart messaging: Collaborative functions to maximise reuse and upcycling.
  • ESG & Circularity Metrics: Functions to measure ingoing and outgoing material flows, CO₂ ESG impacts, cost recovery, etc.
Book a demo to discover Upcyclea solutions

Reuse & Upcycling Technologies.

  • These solutions are first and foremost based on technological partnerships, and include:
  • Dismantling, Sorting and Recovery Technologies: supply-chain of partners specialized in circular logistics.
  • Network of Partners looking for reusable products (e.g. architects, facility managers, general contractors, etc.), or to upcycle secondary raw materials (e.g. manufacturers, refurbishers, etc.).
Contact Upcyclea to become a partner

They have chosen to regenerate the world

How to join your regional Urban Mining?

Owner.
Main contractor.
Product manufacturer.

What does a Urban Mining Programme offer?

Public and private Owners, Real estate departments, Local authorities.

Subscription to your Regional Urban Mining Programme includes :

  • Unlimited number of imported Pre-Demolition Audits
  • Unlimited number of donor sites
  • Unlimited access for your people
  • Free unlimited access for your external partners for one year
  • A shared Resource Manager between members
  • Access to a Circular Economy toolbox
  • Access to the regional Club
Subscribe

James Parker, Senior Sustainability Manager at Clarion Housing  Group has joined Romulus

3 reasons to join a regioal urban mining programme:

  • Meeting the challenges of circular economy, and decarbonising my real estate assets through reuse
  • Maximising reuse and industrialising circular economy processes
  • Producing "Outgoing flows" indicators for the non-financial report

What does a Urban Mining Programme offer?

Architects, Main Contractors, Consultants.

Subscription to your Regional Urban Mining Programme includes :

  • "Urban Mine" option: Unlimited access to the urban mine to used resources or secondary raw materials.
  • "Reuse" option:
  • Unlimited access to the urban mine
  • Publication of its own PDA in the Urban Mine
  • An AI that matches needs with deposits
  • KPI tracking and calculation functions
  • Access to the Club
Subscribe

María Fernandez Cachafeiro, Head of Sustainability at Multiplex has chosen Romulus

3 reasons to join a regioal urban mining programme:

  • Sourcing in UK's largest urban mine
  • Import PDA inventories and find outlets for used resources from your deconstruction projects
  • Produce indicators to monitor reuse actions (waste and CO2 avoided, water saved, economic balance, etc.).

What does a Urban Mining Programme offer?

Product manufacturers.

Subscription to your Regional Urban Mining Programme includes :

  • Access to the urban mine
  • Characterise and declare your secondary raw materials requirements
  • 10 to 50 take-back ecosystems proposed by the urban mine Resource Manager
  • Production of indicators (waste and CO2 avoided, water saved, financial balance sheet) by take-back operation
  • Access to the Noah service to distribute your destocked or refurbished products
  • Access to the Club
Subscribe

James Adams, Managing Director at Maconda has chosen Romulus

3 reasons to join a regioal urban mining programme:

  • Access to an urban mine of used products and secondary raw materials from the deconstructed/refurbished of buildings owned by dozens of social housing authorities, social and private landlords, asset managers
  • Consultation of deposits, and declaration of needs to which the Romulus Resource Manager will respond
  • Recovery of secondary raw materials, and access to end customers for take-back or partnership proposals

Read more...

What is urban mining and its role in decarbonisation?

Go to article ⇢

The circular economy in 10 questions

Go to article ⇢

Who are the players in the circular economy?

Go to article ⇢

Entrez vos coordonnées pour télécharger ce document