In Lagos, Nigeria, Tijjani Abubakar runs a surprising, and lucrative, business: He sells trash from one of the world’s poorest countries to some of its wealthiest. Abubakar’s warren of ...
COVID-19 may have put a dampener on operations, but with more people staying home and having the time to sort through their things, Erth is expecting its e-waste recycling business to bounce back ...
Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total. Generative AI could ...
ERI, the nation’s leading recycler of electronics and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, is teaming with Sony Electronics Inc. to pro ...
(Courtesy: Kou Yang) A new type of composite material is 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from electronic waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by researchers in Singapore, the UK and ...
The epicenter of this obnoxious dumping of e-waste was the Agbogbloshie enclave in Accra, where scrap dealers concentrated their business and polluted the environment at an alarming rate.