Lucknow: Every day, hundreds of discarded mobile phones, laptops, televisions, batteries and other electronic gadgets are thrown away across the state capital. But with no authorised e-waste recycling ...

People don’t usually plan to hold onto their old devices, but that’s what many end up doing. Better information about ...

Old hard drives, servers, and industrial electronics contain valuable rare earths that are often lost before they can be ...

Storage is the worst of both worlds: A device sitting unused for years loses its resale value, and erasing its data only gets harder over time. The good news is that the main barriers – data concerns ...

The healthcare waste industry is familiar with solving problems in complex and tightly regulated waste streams. But vape waste is stretching the limits of regulators and waste managers' creative ...

East Suffolk Council said it was "aware" some rounds of food caddy collections had not been completed and could only guarantee a collection every two weeks whilst the new service embeds. It started on ...

South Africa has taken a major step toward addressing the country's rapidly growing electronic waste problem with the launch of a new e-waste collection and recycling pilot project in Mthatha, Eastern ...

At a junkyard in Lagos, many people were rummaging through piles of discarded electrical equipment. For 38-year-old Malaia and many others like her, this electronic waste is not only a source of ...

Vodacom has sold more than 51,000 refurbished smartphones through its Good As New programme, the South African telecoms giant has announced, as the country grapples with one of the continent’s worst e ...

According to a study published in Nature Computational Science (via Rest of World), the rapid rise of AI could add between 1.2 to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030. The reason is pretty simple.