In a potentially alarming development, the impending end of Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 10’s life may add up to millions of devices to the worldwide electronic waste pile. What ...

Just past the visitor’s center is a mountain of garbage. Refrigerators, desk chairs and shopping carts, stacked in a hulking heap. Around the corner, past the “tipping floor”where compactors shovel ...

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...

E-waste is the fastest growing solid waste stream in the world. Getting rid of it responsibly is especially difficult in rural areas. (Photo by Donna Kallner) For many, spring cleaning starts once ...