As we reported last week, the Green Alliance is calling for an increased focus on recycling and repair. A new report from the Alliance details six ‘circular’ ways to cut these emissions, including ...
Urban mining offers a sustainable solution for resource recovery, transforming e-waste into valuable materials and supporting ...
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Andrew Del Prado argues that society's attitude to recycling electronic gadgets is lagging far behind our desire to create the technology in the first place, and tells the Ecologist how his ...
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 ...
E-waste generated in 2022 contained 31 billion kg of metals, 17b kg of plastics and 14b kg of other materials, according to the UN. Transboundary movements of hazardous and other wastes, including ...
In 2007 we generated 3.01 million tons of e-waste in the United States. Of this amount, only 410,000 tons, or 13.6 percent, was recycled. The rest was trashed in landfills or incinerators. E-waste ...
If you have a few redundant or broken electronics languishing in drawers at home, you’re not alone. The UK is one of the largest producers of household e-waste in the world and we can all be part of ...
Professor Veena Sahajwalla's e-waste factory could be profitable within a couple of years, she says. Many millions of tonnes of televisions, phones and other electronic equipment are discarded each ...