“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 ...

7.3 billion e-toys – car sets, electric trains, music toys, talking dolls, drones, etc. – discarded annually, an average of ~1 per person on Earth; Discarded vapes alone annually weigh as much as 3 ...

Vapes. Drones. Power tools. Talking dolls. LED-decorated novelty clothes. Millions of kitchen drawers’ worth of forgotten cables. The world is accumulating a mountain of “invisible” electronic waste ...

The focus of this year’s International E-waste Day, held on 14 October, was invisible electronic waste (e-waste), a growing problem across the world. Currently, unused cables, electronic toys, power ...

Every year, 7.3 billion electronic toys are thrown out around the world, collectively weighing 10 times the mass of New York City's Empire State Building. LED sneakers, power tools, cables and ...

The 6th annual International E-Waste Day, scheduled for October 14, is a global initiative aimed at raising awareness and driving action concerning the pressing issue of electronic waste. A member of ...

Around 844 million vaping devices are dumped worldwide each year - equivalent in weight to six Eiffel Towers. The gadgets form part of an 'invisible' mountain of electronic waste being dumped annually ...

A hoard of 25 million forgotten electronic gadgets, toys and accessories is lying abandoned in homes, sheds and rubbish tips across Ireland, new data shows. The assortment of used, broken and unwanted ...

E-waste, which refers to discarded electrical or electronic devices, is the fastest growing domestic waste stream in the world, and it is highly toxic, threatening public health. Much of this e-waste, ...