Racing team builds race car from e-waste

Formula E team Envision Racing has revealed its full-size, drivable Formula E Gen3 ‘Recover-E’ car made entirely out of electronic waste (e-waste)

Material breakthrough will facilitate electronics recycling

A UK-based materials specialist has produced a circuit board substrate that dissolves in water, allowing the components to be recovered and recycled

Best Buy launches electronics recycling program in US

Best Buy is introducing a new US-based, program that allows people to recycle old technology by mail

E-waste recovery tech licensed by US PPP

The REMADE Institute, a 154-member public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) with an initial investment of $140 million, today announced a new technology license involving a technological innovation capable of recovering precious metals from used electronics more easily and cost-effectively

Greentec receives nod for updated standard

Greentec has received R2v3 – the most recent standard set for the electronics industry by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI)

Greentec lands iPad recycling contract

Air Canada is recycling 500 used iPads with Cambridge, Ontario-based Greentec

Staples reports on diversion efforts

Retailer diverted more than 136,000 kilograms of batteries and two million kilograms of electronics from the waste stream in 2020

Global electronic waste up 21% in five years, and recycling isn’t keeping up

In 2019 alone, the world generated 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste

Five strategies for e-waste management

With 785 of e-waste uncollected, it's time to implement strategies to handle it properly

Indonesia can earn US$14 billion from old mobile phones and other e-waste in 2040

New paper estimates Indonesia could produce about two million tonnes of e-waste in 2021, which is the most in Southeast Asia