# William Thomas

William Thomas works in electronic-waste processing and critical-materials recovery at IT Recycling Answers, discussing how retired electronics can supply materials for U.S. manufacturing.

- Profile: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/creators/william-thomas/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-hopper-thomas-5b857418a
- Topics: supply-chain, supply-chain-resilience, circular-economy
- Based on 12 dated posts, latest 2026-09-29

## Summary

Most useful for explaining e-waste recovery and connecting retired electronics to domestic critical-materials supply chains.

- Best for: Corporate IT asset management campaigns needing e-waste pickup, copper recovery, and domestic supply-chain stories.
- Not for: A paid sponsorship buy with guaranteed impressions, clicks, rate cards, or audience breakdowns.
- Check first: Confirm whether they offer equipment recovery services, not sponsorship, and ask for audience evidence.

### Takeaways

- One post identifies copper in circuit boards, heatsinks, and wire, then shows sorting for recovery.
- Another connects retired electronics collected around Kansas City with recycled feedstock for domestic supply chains.
- Posts place work in federal critical-minerals policy and the Critical Materials Crossroads launch.

## Main ideas

- **The next mine is already in the city**: Thomas argues that retired electronics should be treated as a source of critical minerals, not just as trash. The metals have already been extracted and are sitting above ground, so recovering them keeps recycled feedstock in a domestic supply chain and reduces the case for opening new ground for the same material.
- **Federal policy and the metals reserve as a business signal**: Thomas follows federal action as context for the value of local recovery. Washington is creating a national recovery strategy, easing the movement of used batteries, funding mineral testing, and standing up a reserve that buys listed metals—all of which increases demand for material recovered from electronics.
- **A national argument grounded in Kansas City operations**: Thomas argues that the supply chain is national but the work is local. Collection, sorting, pickup, and regional relationships happen in a specific metro, so a domestic materials story runs through a city-level operation and its community partners.
- **Refresh timing is the recurring ask**: Two posts ask readers to look at equipment they have not yet retired. Gear sitting in a closet or on a shelf is feedstock that has not entered the recovery chain, so the decision point is the buyer's refresh schedule, not a general appeal about recycling.

## Work to read

- [The CHARM Act and urban mining in Kansas City](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-hopper-thomas-5b857418a_criticalmaterialscrossroads-criticalminerals-activity-7508161995683258368-RQG1)
- [Where the copper is: sorting retired electronics for domestic supply](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-hopper-thomas-5b857418a_urbanminingkc-copper-criticalminerals-activity-7510778758115594240--qIZ)
- [At the Critical Materials Crossroads launch at Union Station](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/william-hopper-thomas-5b857418a_criticalmaterials-urbanmining-circulareconomy-activity-7497974909386575872-9Xhx)

## Brand relationships

- **IT Recycling Answers** (disclosed_partnership)
- **Critical Materials Crossroads** (disclosed_partnership)

## Partnerships

The posts show an operational commercial relationship model, not a sponsorship, media or creator-partnership program. William Thomas runs IT Recycling Answers, which picks up retired office electronics, separates copper-containing parts such as boards, heatsinks and wire, and keeps the recovered feedstock in a domestic supply chain. The business serves clients nationwide from Kansas City. Thomas says they have worked with Critical Materials Crossroads since 2024 and exhibited at the organization's launch at Union Station in Kansas City, where the theme was recovering critical materials from electronic waste to build a more resilient domestic supply chain. For buyers, a partnership conversation is likely to focus on equipment flow, processing and joint positioning around critical-materials recovery, not a listed sponsorship slot.

## Alternatives

- David Goldsmith: If the need is to move upstream from disposing of office equipment to producing primary material, David Goldsmith is the stronger choice. The posts describe Mearth Infinium deploying autonomous and semi-autonomous narrow-vein mining systems into operating mines and selling production rather than hardware: the company says it gets paid when material moves, not when equipment arrives. That matters if the asset management company's client wants a partner tied to mined output, or if a campaign explaining the economics of remote-operated mines needs someone who can argue those economics, including the return figures the posts cite for conventional, local surface and centralised command operations. The posts also claim that most people building mining technology are not miners, while this team is.
- Kristi Rogers: Kristi Rogers is the better pick when the campaign is about policy and security framing rather than collection. The posts describe appearances on critical-minerals and stockpile panels: a National Security Institute discussion on Capitol Hill about securing U.S. armament stockpiles and supply chain resilience, and a panel on illicit networks and gray-zone activity in mineral supply chains at a strategic resources conference. If the asset management company sells to government or defense-adjacent buyers, or needs a voice connecting recovered material to national-security and economic-resilience language, Rogers is already in the rooms where that framing is set and speaks to it directly.
- Steve Holm: Steve Holm is the alternative if choosing a partner for the asset management company's refresh-audit and pickup programme becomes a software decision: equipping its sales and account teams to run the programme. The posts argue for a CRM that disappears into existing systems, describe a customer using Copper to requalify a 6,000-plus contact network and connect sales with production, and make the case for restraint in product scope, saying no to feature requests to keep one idea sharp. That is relevant if the bottleneck is getting teams to use the pipeline tool, or if the campaign needs a partner who thinks about what not to build.

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AI-assisted summary of public posts. Audience demographics are not available. Engagement appears only where we checked recent posts. Method: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/methodology/