Today’s consumer electronics are lightweight, sophisticated, powerful –– and are contaminating the environment. The United Nations’s Global E-waste Monitor 2024 report estimates that some 62 million ...

When CyberCrunch CEO Joe Connors joined the company in 2012, the e-waste industry as we know it didn’t exist. Back then, Connors was an accountant. Several of his clients ran scrap companies. One of ...

In 2022, Mercy Corps, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and supported by Innovation Norway, launched a groundbreaking pilot project focused on addressing the ...

In an era where technology evolves at a breakneck pace, our reliance on electronic devices is at an all-time high. This rapid advancement, however, brings with it a significant challenge: electronic ...

Electronic devices power nearly every part of modern life—from smartphones and laptops to smart appliances and wearable tech. But behind this convenience lies one of the fastest-growing waste streams ...

Our growing reliance on technology at home and in the workplace has raised the profile of e-waste. This consists of discarded electrical devices including laptops, smartphones, televisions, computer ...

E-waste, the fastest-growing waste stream worldwide, is a global sustainability challenge emanating from the proliferation of technology in a consumer-driven society, which discards millions of tons ...