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Neil Koenig, ideaXme Senior TV Series Producer and interviewer talks with Kilian Kaminski, Co-founder of refurbed. 🪛⚙️🔨 👩‍💻📲

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Does your home have a drawer with an old smartphone in it? If so, you're not the only one. According to one study there are some 200 million unused phones in homes in Germany alone: that's more than two per person. 📱💻 "This is a tragedy" says Kilian Kaminski, because there are "resources in these devices, which are really valuable - gold, silver, copper, and they are just lying around without any usage". Kilian, along with Peter Windischhofer and Jürgen Riedl, is now trying to do something about the situation. Several years ago the trio founded "refurbed", a company based in Vienna that renews old electronic devices and makes them usable again. 

I caught up with Kilian Kaminski at the 2024 St Gallen Symposium. In this interview with me for ideaXme, he talks about how his enterprise came to be founded, how it is branching out to refurbish a wider range of items such as sports goods and vacuum cleaners, and how he hopes to turn "refurbished" into a new product category that is "the cool, smart choice", as well being as a vital step in the development of the so-called "circular" economy.

LINKS Refurbed http://www.refurbed.com Kilian Kaminski   / kiliankaminski   St Gallen Symposium https://symposium.org/ Neil Koenig:  .css-j9qmi7{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:2.8rem;width:100%;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:start;justify-content:start;padding-left:5rem;}@media only screen and (max-width: 599px){.css-j9qmi7{padding-left:0;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;}}.css-j9qmi7 svg{fill:#27292D;}.css-j9qmi7 .eagfbvw0{-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:#27292D;}