e-waste
This Online ‘Drone Junk Yard’ Lets UAV Owners Swap and Exchange Parts
It’s like a local car junkyard but for drones.
A Hacker Made This Augmented Reality Ultrasound With 80s Tech
Victor Skobov upgraded a piece of e-waste that was rescued from a dumpster.
This Japanese Band Makes Music With E-Waste
Reel-to-reel tape recorders, cathode ray tube TVs, and ventilator fans are all instruments for Open Reel Ensemble.
A Professional Computer Refurbisher Turns Broken MacBooks Into Glitch Art
Most broken LCDs look ugly. But when you repair thousands of them, sometimes they stand out.
Europe Only Correctly Recycles 35 Percent of Its E-Waste
The other 6.2 million tonnes are dumped or exported.
There's Gold in Those Cell Phones, But It Comes at a Steep Price to the Environment
Every year Americans discard phones that contain more than $60 million in gold and silver, and those precious metals often end up overseas in toxic dumps
Inside the World's Biggest E-Waste Dump
215,000 tonnes of second hand consumer electronics, mainly from Western Europe and the US, come through Ghana a year.
The Media Archaeologists Who Turn Defunct Tech into Art
A new exhibition makes art out of technological obsolescence.
Wood-Based Computer Chips Could Make Electronics Biodegradable
A new cellulose-based material offers hope for e-waste.
You Are Ruining the Environment By Throwing Away Your Smartphones and Computers
Norwegians produce about 62 pounds of e-waste per person — in the United Sates it's 48 pounds.
The World Produced a Staggering 41.8 Million Tonnes of E-Waste in 2014
That's comparable to 1.15 million 40-ton 18-wheel trucks—enough to form a line of trucks spanning the distance from New York to Tokyo and back.