At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...

Your smartphone begins life neatly packed into a well-designed box. Chances are it will end its days in a more ignominious manner. Assuming it doesn’t end up rattling around in a junk drawer, it will ...

A new material for flexible electronics could enable multilayered, recyclable electronic devices and help limit e-waste. Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and it's ...

EnduraCure is developing degradable materials to address e-waste, led by Dennis Pruzan and based on research from the University of Utah.

Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to discarded electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other consumer or industrial electronics that are no longer functional or needed. These ...

Terence Musho has received funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. When the computer or phone you’re using right now ...

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 ...

As global trade tensions intensify, resilient supply chains are becoming more crucial. Lingering disruptions from the pandemic, climate change, and the war in Ukraine all continue to have significant ...

Toys that move, make noise, and light up are winding up in landfills — but they could be recycled, with better policies. With the holiday season fast approaching, parents around the world are deciding ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...

All those old wires, cords, tablets, phones and other electronics aren't just taking up space in drawers and closets – they're also extensively covering the planet. A United Nations report released ...

For many people, old electronics quickly fall out of sight and out of mind, sitting in a box in the back of the closet when they make their next upgrades. When they’re finally thrown out, the devices ...