Is your old phone just collecting dust? It might be an expensive paperweight in disguise. Consumer Investigator ...

Small electronic gadgets such as toys, vacuum cleaners and e-cigarettes had particularly low recycling rates at around 12%, despite making up roughly a third of all e-waste, the report found.

The recycling rate in 2022 was 22.3% and the U.N. believes that number will drop to 20% by 2030, at the same time that the world will generate 82 million metric tons of e-waste.

E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says Some of the discarded electronic devices contained mercury and Earth metals coveted by tech industry ...

Contact H-T reporter Laura Lane at [email protected] or 812-318-5967. This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: April 26 is Cook Medical Electronic Waste Recycling Day ...

Shaw said that after peaking at around 40% in 2014, the US recycling rate for e-waste has been declining. But the EPA is working on an electronics strategy, she added, and hopes to boost the ...

The program, launched during an event at the local Goodwill Keystone Area store and donation center in Lemoyne, is part of a new partnership with Reworld, a provider of e-waste recycling that has ...

Henry Gabriel, Honolulu’s Recycling Program Branch Chief, joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss the City’s plan to provide designated drop-off locations for electronic waste, a ...

For more information on how to donate old electronics, visit ycswa.com. This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: Electronic waste recycling now available at York County locations ...