In the corner of my basement sits a dusty Rubbermaid bin crammed with a decade’s worth of outdated and obsolete electronics, otherwise known as e-waste. It’s a tangle of cords, cables, clickers, ...
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E‑waste in the United States may soon be more than a growing environmental problem.
Inside America's junk drawers sits an untapped fortune, and a national and economic security solution. As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, University of Houston researchers have ...
Discarded computers await new life through recycling. Circuit boards contain small amounts of precious and semiprecious metals valuable to recyclers. (Photos by Gwen Mickelson) When Steve Goldie looks ...
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, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Question : What happens to discarded electronics that people put in e-waste bins at city convenience centers ? The city’s recent ...