Recycling programs and incentives are lacking for devices such as earphones, charging cables and adapters, says the group.

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Components such as steel, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, plastics and even glass, can be recovered and reused ...

Between new smartphones and other highly anticipated devices rapidly being released on the market, many consumers find themselves with a stack of old devices. Maybe they're shoved away in a closer or ...

Every year, people throw away billions of kilograms of old electronics. Broken phones, outdated laptops, damaged televisions ...

Approximately 2.25 million tons of obsolete TVs, cell phones and computers -- commonly referred to as e-waste -- were ready to be disposed of in a single year, according to a 2007 U.S. Environmental ...

Did you know electronic waste, also known as e-waste, is the fastest-growing component of waste worldwide? In the United States alone, we throw out approximately 130,000 computers daily and 100 ...

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