Today’s consumer electronics are lightweight, sophisticated, powerful –– and are contaminating the environment. The United Nations’s Global E-waste Monitor 2024 report estimates that some 62 million ...

In 2022, Mercy Corps, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and supported by Innovation Norway, launched a groundbreaking pilot project focused on addressing the ...

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, researchers project ...

As Americans continuously upgrade their TVs for newer models and toss their old ones, it creates a serious problem: too many of them are ending up in recycling facilities, leaving processors ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. A photo taken on September 27, 2022 shows a 6-metre-tall ...

Every time generative artificial intelligence drafts an e-mail or conjures up an image, the planet pays for it. Making two images can consume as much energy as charging a smartphone; a single exchange ...

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 last year ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to discarded electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other consumer or industrial electronics that are no longer functional or needed. These ...

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 ...