E-Waste

E-waste is hazardous, but often not properly tracked or recycled. What’s needed? A more formalized re-use economy and future-thinking brands.  It seems like everything and anything these days is connected to the internet. From robotic vacuum cleaners to toothbrushes, smart refrigerators, electronic toys and even running shoes, computerized devices embedded with sensors and controllers have

On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Jeff Yurek, the Ontario Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks was joined by representative of Nokia Canada and Greener Acres Canada to speak about recycling e-waste and some exciting new technology.

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In the aftermath of the World Health Orga­nisation (WHO) declaring the dreadful Covid-19 virus a pandemic on March 11, information communication technologies (ICT) and the use of electronic devices and

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The city of Apache Junction will hold a collection event for household hazardous waste, white goods, electronic recycling and document shredding on Saturday, Nov. 21. The event will be held 8 a.m. …

driven by tightening recycling norms against the backdrop of rapid technology and replacement cycles of electronic products and the resulting rise in e-waste generation. Currently, e-waste poses the biggest risk to the environment and health with lead, cadmium, chromium, brominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls representing the toxic materials found in e-waste.

Keep Sidney Beautiful is hosting an E-Wast collection event, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov 14. The event will be held at Legion Park by the t-ball fields. The E-Waste collection will accept computers, laptops, monitors (flat or CRT), printers, faxes, remote controls, phones, game stations, and anything with a PC board in it. CRT (tube) televisi…

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Since 2016, the e-scrap industry has known about the huge tonnages of abandoned CRTs sitting in Columbus, Ohio. The glass has …Continue Reading→