In a new report released this week, the United Nations said the amount of electronics waste worldwide is growing even as efforts to recycle it may be falling even further behind targets. The Global ...

AI growth could add up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030, as rapid hardware upgrades and data center expansion increase environmental impact. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

(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 ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers. When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest informal recycling market, he ...

Discarded electronic waste containing earth minerals is overtaking landfills globally at an alarming rate as much of the tech industry and enterprises kick the disposal problem to the curb. Meanwhile, ...

E-waste is a major issue across the globe, and one company based out of Ireland with direct ties with Apple is aiming to mitigate some of that impact. Here's how. Apple has its own goals for trying to ...

Whether it's for work, school or keeping up with friends and family, we all rely on electronic devices for our daily lives. It's likely you are reading this article from a device that uses a battery ...

The first of two features to commemorate International E-waste Day on 14 October explores just how big the problem is and what can be done about it. Although tackling the interconnected issues of ...

The disposable nature of modern gadgetry is leading to a worrying e-waste problem. To highlight the issue, Envision Racing and artist Liam Hopkins teamed up to create a Formula E Gen3 racecar built ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if ...