A new gold extraction method turns old electronics into treasure using pool disinfectant and sunlight — no poisons required.

Most of the e-waste ends up in landfills, as currently, only 22.3% of e-waste is collected and recycled. The problem here is that e-waste is nonbiodegradable. It also poses a significant health ...

In an article published in Nature, the research team detailed a new method for extracting gold from existing e-waste (via Techxplore).Better yet, this process is relatively low-cost and largely ...

Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total.

Only 22.3% of the world's 62 billion kg of e-waste was recycled in 2022, according to the latest data available from the United Nations global e-waste monitor. Meanwhile, the use of the technology ...

The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of more than 10 billion iPhones per year by 2030, ...

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination on Tuesday initiated the process of drafting Pakistan's first national electronic waste policy to address unsafe recycling practices that ...

An "E-waste Initiative" has been launched in Delhi to deal with growing threat of electronic-related garbage. The alarming proliferation of electronic waste (E-waste) presents a significant threat ...

A: “E-waste may end up in the waste stream through the city’s bulky item appointment system and residents placing it with their household trash, which will end up at H-POWER. The city is ...

The project, called E-Waste in Ghana: Tracing Transboundary Flows, which won this year’s Fondation Carmingac photojournalism award, aims to capture both the positive and negative aspects of e-waste.

KUALA LUMPUR: The parties involved in smuggling scheduled waste, electronic waste (e-waste), and scrap into the country are doing so by making false declarations and committing fraud.