Aquafade is a fully water-soluble plastic casing that can be dissolved to allow easier recycling of the electronics inside.

Under the scenario with the most AI growth the world could create as much as 2.5 million tons of e-waste each year. "Our study aims not to precisely forecast the quantity of AI servers and their ...

Second of 3 Parts Humanity produces 62 million tons of electronic waste every year, enough to fill 1.5 million transport trucks, making it one of the ...

solar panels risk increasing overall e-waste production,” Shellenberger says. “The people who could pay the price for this hazard are some of the poorest people in the world.” This is not to ...

More from World Wide Waste One ton of circuit boards from old e-waste can contain 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Crawley in Sydney ...

The environmental consequences of constantly producing new devices and disposing of electronic devices is putting immense ...

India, the world's third-largest e-waste generator, faces a growing crisis as population growth accelerates electronic waste production. The world’s most populous nation generated 1.7 million ...

The issue of e-waste also looms large, with only 14 to 40 percent of US electronic waste being recycled. This could lead to an estimated 1.06 billion pounds of e-waste, equivalent to the weight of ...

our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis ... weren’t finding even more plastic in the sea. World production has increased exponentially—from 2.3 million ...

Boliden, a Swedish multinational company specializing in metals, mining, and smelting, is collaborating with IVL Swedish ...

In a world of ever-changing and upgrading technology, it is easy to end up with a pile of old electronics. Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing solid waste streams in the world ...