Electronic waste (e-waste) is a serious environmental issue, since old electronics end up in landfills, leaking chemicals. Less than 20 percent of e-waste is appropriately recycled. Important: Do you ...

(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 ...

EnduraCure is developing degradable materials to address e-waste, led by Dennis Pruzan and based on research from the University of Utah.

Discarded electronics are the world's fastest-growing category of domestic waste and most devices aren't easy to recycle.

As electronics have gotten smaller and more flexible, they’ve been incorporated into more uses in the field of healthcare.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers. When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest informal recycling market, he ...

A study shows that in healthcare electronics, it is primarily the electronics in the devices that burden the environment.

Engineer turned social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia's capital, the unassuming home of a startup he launched to tackle the country's ...

Jan. 6, 2006 — -- Americans bought an estimated $125 billion worth of consumer electronics -- computers, monitors, cell phones, televisions -- this past year. With hundreds of millions of them ...

Despite the threats that improper handling of hazardous waste, particularly electronic waste (e-waste), poses to human health ...

PETALING JAYA: Illegal e-waste operations have made the headlines in Malaysia over the past few weeks, with materials worth billions in ringgit seized by the authorities in various raids. A nationwide ...

Reasons you shouldn't throw gadgets in the trash, and what to do instead Electronic waste (e-waste) is a serious environmental issue, since old electronics end up in landfills, leaking chemicals. Less ...