About half the states in the country, including New York, have laws against throwing electronics in the trash. When old e-waste ends up in landfills, it releases toxins like lead, cadmium, mercury and ...

California-based company enhances e-waste recycling capabilities with improved material recovery and secure data ...

Global electronic waste volumes are reaching unprecedented levels annually, according to national e-waste knowledge hub WEEE are SA. In 2022, e-waste reached 62-million tonnes – an 82% increase ...

The smartphone may prove to be the most enduring symbol of modern human invention. The microcomputers are now portals to ...

In the corner of my basement sits a dusty Rubbermaid bin crammed with a decade’s worth of outdated and obsolete electronics, otherwise known as e-waste. It’s a tangle of cords, cables, clickers, ...

Discarded computers await new life through recycling. Circuit boards contain small amounts of precious and semiprecious metals valuable to recyclers. (Photos by Gwen Mickelson) When Steve Goldie looks ...

We think a lot about where products come from when we buy them, less so about where they go when we're finished. When we throw things away, this is "away": mountains of garbage across acres of land, ...