From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — Recycling can be a dirty business, which is a problem for one of Europe's oldest and largest recycling plants. The Umicore plant in Hoboken, a suburb of Antwerp, gathers electronic ...

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

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 last year ...

If researchers at UAEU can successfully treat the toxic components found in e-waste, it could go a long way to solving the planet’s pollution problem Electronic waste (e-waste) is a significant and ...

The world’s generation of waste electronics and electricals, known as e-waste, is rising five times faster than documented recycling capacity. That is according to the latest edition of the UN’s ...

Monday morning, and a sorry bunch of tangled cables, a broken coffee machine and a single clip-on light is all there is inside the metal crates at Veolia, a noisy recycling depot where residents of ...

Why are we asking this now? Because yesterday the UN issued a new report on electronic waste, highlighting the danger from "rocketing" sales of mobile phones, PCs and electronic appliances, in the ...

"I was a kid of the early 80s, when electronic items were quite expensive and were supposed to last for ages." Francesco Calo has been learning how to fix his broken TV at a repair event in Tooting, ...

SIR - The problem of recycling goes on. We are told that we can reduce waste by composting, but some folk have only small gardens. We are also informed that sink disposal units which liquidise food ...