Your smartphone begins life neatly packed into a well-designed box. Chances are it will end its days in a more ignominious manner. Assuming it doesn’t end up rattling around in a junk drawer, it will ...

Dexter Barsigan and his wife Rosalie Sedantes strip parts from discarded electronic equipment in Manila. Barsigan has spent the past 13 years making a living with his bare hands and a pair of pliers, ...

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. Generative AI could account ...

E-waste has become a global problem. Unfortunately, the majority of discarded used technology, known as e-waste, is dumped or processed in unsafe conditions. Around 78% of electronic products aren’t ...

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The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it ...

From defective household electronics to old smartphones: the total amount of e-waste generated around the world this year is estimated to reach a record 57.4 million tonnes -- that is, more than the ...

The digital age has brought unprecedented convenience, but it also comes with a growing environmental cost: electronic waste. Global e-waste reached 62 million tons in 2022 and is projected to hit ...

Every weekday, Ibrahim wakes up at six in the morning. By eight he is usually bent over a smoking fire, burning the insulation from copper wires, as he has done for the last eight years. Ibrahim is ...