Every year, 7.3 billion electronic toys are thrown out around the world, collectively weighing 10 times the mass of New York City's Empire State Building. LED sneakers, power tools, cables and ...

Jack Cartwright explores the material value hidden in the UK’s discarded electronics and the carbon savings that proper ...

At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...

7.3 billion e-toys – car sets, electric trains, music toys, talking dolls, drones, etc. – discarded annually, an average of ~1 per person on Earth; Discarded vapes alone annually weigh as much as 3 ...

Urban mining offers a sustainable solution for resource recovery, transforming e-waste into valuable materials and supporting ...

E-waste generates faster than recycling capacity and is set to grow to 82 billion metric tonnes In 2022, e-waste globally contained 4 million tons of metals classified as critical raw materials Mining ...

Your smartphone begins life neatly packed into a well-designed box. Chances are it will end its days in a more ignominious manner. Assuming it doesn’t end up rattling around in a junk drawer, it will ...

The national initiatives to recycle electronic waste (e-waste) are set to explore further investment in recycled materials su ...

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 ...

Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total. Generative AI could account ...