This year, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum says. Its estimate, based on global trade data, highlights the ...

Discarded electronic components, also known as e-waste, represent the majority of the hazardous solid waste produced worldwide. According to the United Nations University, 53,6 million metrics ...

Consequently, electronic waste, or e-waste, is washing across the globe. In 2020, a U.N. report warned that over 50 million tons of e-waste were dumped worldwide in 2019 alone.

The chairman and chief executive officer of electronic waste recycler ERI, John Shegerian, said e-waste is the "fastest growing solid waste stream in the world". Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

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, ...

Electronic waste growing at record levels, U.N. report finds 05:46. Thai officials on Wednesday said they seized 238 tons of illegally imported electronic waste from the United States at the port ...

The organizers of a new initiative that retrieves e-waste from across rural Alaska report they collected and recycled over 145,000 pounds of lead-acid batteries from 45 communities last year.