Plenary 3 • Urban Mining: The Circular Economy of E-Waste

Alexander is the Founder and CEO of Buckstop – The AI valuation and decommissioning platform for owners of renewable energy assets. Founded in 2025, Buckstop is building the intelligence layer for the circular economy. Its mission is to create a sustainable end-of-life for every electronic device on Earth, turning yesterday’s waste into tomorrow’s resources. Buckstop is transforming how companies think about asset disposal, from costly burden to strategic opportunity. BUCKSTOP leverages a proprietary AI-driven appraisal engine and agentic workflows to “mine” enterprise asset lists, unlocking the residual value in the trillions of dollars of metals embedded in the U.S. economy. By streamlining industrial disposition, Grayson and the BUCKSTOP team are providing the essential data layer for a truly circular industrial economy.