It’s estimated that the amount of e-waste generated last year was more than 57m tonnes. Phone recycling is on the rise, but most handsets still end up in landfill sites,…
Are Lithium Batteries For Electric Vehicles Costing The Earth?
With demand for electric batteries sky high, mining companies are making their move on the salt flats of the Andes, where over half of the world's known reserves of lithium…
How Can We Fix The Massive E-Waste Problem?
About 6.9 million metric tons of e-waste was produced in the U.S. alone in 2019. That's about the same weight as 19 Empire State Buildings. Of that, only about 15%…
How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month
Only 17% of electronic waste is recycled. That’s because devices aren’t designed to be recycled. They’re full of tiny, toxic materials that are hard and expensive to break down. But…
Recycling – Turning Waste Into Valuable Raw Materials
Gold-rush atmosphere in the recycling industry, waste as an economic engine. Every year, 40 million metric tons of waste end up in the trash cans of German households. Thanks to…
Recycling e-waste – Good For Business And The Environment
One way to tackle e-waste is to repair devices rather than throw them out. More companies are doing just that, from recycling solar modules to renting out second-hand smartphones. Their…
How To Dispose Of Your Electronic Waste The Right Way
A short discussion on how to dispose of your electronic waste in the right way including your personal devices such as laptops, mobile phones and mp3 players. It's important to…
The Risks of Recycling E-Waste
Believe it or not, ewaste recycling can be a dangerous task as you are often dealing with harmful chemicals that are located in the hardware. It's very important to recycle…
The Truth About Plastic Recycling … It’s Complicated
Since China stopped importing plastic for recycling the whole industry has changed and it's become very expensive to recycle plastics. The plastics are building up around the world with no…
How eWaste Is Harming Our World
This video by interesting engineering let's us get a look at how eWaste is harming our world, dangerous chemicals are being leached into the ground contaminating water and ground which…