“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge ...

New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.

In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...

Waste management is a critical issue facing businesses around the world. As companies grow and consumption rises, the amount of waste generated continues to increase. At the same time, there is ...

JINAN, China, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A well-known international group conducted rigorous worldwide evaluations on both domestic and international suppliers in the same industry. After ...

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film ...

When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...

The character Marce the Recycler has created an enthusiastic dedication to proper waste separation among her devoted fans. By Genevieve Glatsky Photographs by Nathalia Angarita Reporting from Bogotá, ...