By Gerry McGovernSue Branford “I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s ...

A University of Michigan study has found that people in Ghana and across the Global South who recycle electronic waste face a ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After nightfall, when trash covers the streets of the busy Kariakoo market here, compactor trucks rumble along followed by men in green uniforms and women wearing skirts and ...

Electronics recycling and reverse logistics company E-Waste Systems Inc. (EWSI), Los Altos, Calif., has signed what it calls a “teaming agreement” with Ghana-based Community Waste Ltd. It represents ...

Store CEO Chris Dodd says the future will be defined not by rapid device turnover, but by keeping existing technology in use for longer.

When I bought my laptop in my first year of university, it was fast, reliable, and felt like an investment that would last. But when I reached the third and final year of my undergraduate studies, it ...

Electronic waste is now the fastest-growing waste stream worldwide, reshaping market dynamics across the global recycling ...

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is ...

We think a lot about where products come from when we buy them, less so about where they go when we're finished. When we throw things away, this is "away": mountains of garbage across acres of land, ...