At this pace, e-waste will grow by 33 percent by 2030, while the recycling rate could decline to 20 percent. (You can see this growth in the graph below: purple is EEE on the market, black is e ...

Small electronic gadgets such as toys, vacuum cleaners and e-cigarettes had particularly low recycling rates at around 12%, despite making up roughly a third of all e-waste, the report found.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

E-waste challenges of generative artificial Intelligence, published by Wang, P et al. in the journal Nature Computational science (October 2024) DOI: 10.1038/s43588-024-00712-6.

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 ...

E-waste is the world's fastest-growing waste stream, with 62 million tonnes generated in 2022, up 82% from 2010, according to a UN report.

For years, a site called Agbogbloshie in Accra was one of the largest e-waste processing sites in Africa, getting 15,000 tons of discarded phones, computers and other used electronics each year.