Monday, April 22, 2013 - 2:44pm
The people who know the most about tearing electronics to shreds have an Earth Day tip about electronics recycling: it's bad for the planet, and you shouldn't do it.
e-waste stories
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 3:53pm
Discarded electronics, or e-waste, is one of the fastest growing environmental problems worldwide, but what if the circuit boards could be disassembled and recycled after a simple dunking in hot water?
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 10:11am
One man is making a dent in the mountain of digital waste by recycling everything from circuit boards to digital picture frames to make coffee tables. Only they aren't just tables — toss in some railroad figures and fairy lights and you've got a bustling metropolis encased in acrylic or glass.
Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 1:35pm
Did you get one of those annoying musical greeting cards for Valentine's Day? Well if you live in California, you're probably breaking the law if you chuck it in the trash after all the Valentine's chocolates have all been eaten.
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 6:31am
Dutch researchers have created a new "self-healing" thermoplastic that can be reused over and over, possibly saving millions of tons of e-waste a year. Most consumer gadgets use a thermoset plastic material in their construction (some examples: The hard plastic...
- CES 2009
- corporations
- e-waste
- eco-friendly
- eco-tech
- electronic waste
- electronics
- environment
- green
- Manufacturing
- Panasonic
- phantom energy
- power consumption
- recycling
- samsung
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 5:09am
"Greening" the company line is standard practice in the electronics industry, and we've been getting plenty of it here at CES 2009. After all, if washing machine A uses half as much energy as machine B, it must be...
