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Chromebooks Are Trash (Literally)
A new report from U.S. PIRG finds that Chromebooks’ cheap design and short lifespan means people are treating them as disposable, and is creating piles of ewaste.
Lithium Battery Fires Are Threatening Recycling as We Know It
People are tossing old electronics in the recycling bin, and they're lighting on fire and exploding at municipal recycling centers at an alarming rate.
Android’s E-Waste Problem Can’t Be Solved With Custom ROMs
Custom ROMs have their use cases, but they’re few and far between and difficult to install.
When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean?
Battery recycling is notoriously expensive, inefficient, and dangerous. Getting better at it is crucial to making sure electric cars are cleaner.
Are Digital Pregnancy Tests a Wasteful Scam? An Investigation
Electronic pregnancy tests use paper test strips that are connected to computer chips, raising the question of what you're paying for.
The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics Are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World’
"The material value of e-waste alone is worth $62.5 billion, three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines and more than the GDP of most countries."
Giant Art Installation Outside MWC Protests Planned Obsolescence
There's a right to repair protest in front of the world's largest cell phone conference.
America's Television Graveyards
How millions of old CRT televisions have wound up abandoned in warehouses all over the country.
Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold From iPhones’ Story Is True
Here is the truth: Apple paid independent recyclers to recycle old electronics—which were almost never Apple products, by the way—because it’s required by law to do so.
A Slimmer Smartphone Means Mountains of E-waste
Thinner gadgets are not only harder to recycle, we can’t seem to part with them.
Phoneblok, a Tonic for the iPhone's Planned Obsolescence
Will consumers sacrifice attractive cohesion in favor of environmental friendliness?
An Electro-Undertaker Explains America's E-Waste Problem
A chat with John Kirsch, partner and co-founder of the e-waste recycling company, 4th Bin.