In 2022, humans generated roughly 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – or e-waste. That’s enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. And by 2030, that figure is expected to rise to 82 ...

Recycling startup Mint Innovation partnered with the tech giant to make the industry’s first batch of closed-loop recycled copper from old HP computers and printers. Inside a new HP laptop, the copper ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to discarded electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other consumer or industrial electronics that are no longer functional or needed. These ...

A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap waste. There's some irony in the fact that devices that seem indispensable to modern life -- mobile phones, personal ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...

The extraction technology was developed at the Ames National Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus through its ...

For many people, old electronics quickly fall out of sight and out of mind, sitting in a box in the back of the closet when they make their next upgrades. When they’re finally thrown out, the devices ...

The city of Tulsa has recently launched a new E-waste recycling service at all of its park community centers. People can bring in small electronics such as old landline phones, old cell phones, ...

A new study shows the country will generate about 2.3 million tonnes of electronic waste between 2025 and 2030 from just seven common household products — with many of those products sent to landfill ...