(CNN) — As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. According to a UN report released ...

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IIT Madras has developed an indigenous pilot plant to recover metals from electronic waste. The zero-discharge system offers ...

Engineer turned social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia's capital, the unassuming home of a startup he launched to tackle the country's ...

The topic of e-waste has come under the spotlight with the arrival of Circular Electronics Day, aiming to shine a light on the continued levels of IT equipment that is dumped in landfill. The calendar ...

The Humane Ai Pin promised to be the next big thing in wearable tech but the device failed to attract users, becoming instead a poster child for AI's contribution to the global e-waste problem. The ...

E-waste is a rapidly growing problem, with discarded electronics containing valuable metals that are largely unrecovered. Scientists have discovered bacteria capable of extracting precious metals like ...

In mobster parlance, to "waste" something is to get rid of it, hence the headline. Yet the question is vital, with millions of technological products currently going into landfill and polluting the ...

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 ...

Leaders in Canada's consumer electronics and information technology industries have joined forces to find environmentally-friendly solutions for the growing problem of what to do with electronics ...