E-Opala has suspended all electronic waste collections and canceled upcoming events after reaching its reimbursement limit ...

In March 2024, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research's (UNITAR) Global E-Waste Monitor report found 62 million metric tons of mobile phones and devices were dumped on the planet ...

According to the U.N., e-waste is the world's fastest-growing trash stream, and, as is common with a lot of rubbish, the developed world is exporting its problems. The flow of electronic waste from ...

Our growing reliance on technology at home and in the workplace has raised the profile of e-waste. This consists of discarded electrical devices including laptops, smartphones, televisions, computer ...

Hawaiʻi's primary e-waste collector, E-Opala, has reached its manufacturer reimbursement limit for 2026, leaving the state ...

AI is a major contributor to e-waste mountains that continue to grow exponentially. So, to mark International E-Waste Day today (14 October), we explore what organizations can do about this major ...

According to a study published in Nature Computational Science (via Rest of World), the rapid rise of AI could add between 1.2 to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030. The reason is pretty simple.

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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 ...

(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 ...