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 ...

A man in Uttarakhand, India, feeds circuit boards into a shredder in a photo dated Jan. 29, 2021. (Image: Shutterstock) The hardware powering chatbots could increase electronic trash by a thousand ...

“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 ...

A not-for-profit environmental group put GPS devices in 35 e-waste items and dropped them off at recycling locations in four ...

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, ...