e-waste

Why India Needs To Step Up Its Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Efforts. (Representative image)The rapid rise of EVs as the most popular mode of personal transportation has resulted in a new set of environmental problems. The world observed Global Recycling Day on March 18.The rapid rise of electric vehicles (EVs) as the most prevalent mode of personal mobility has resulted in a new set of environmental issues.The primary issue is battery-generated waste and the excessive mining of lithium-ion battery components, which…

The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it and have to discard it, the device will become e-waste, joining an alarmingly large mountain of defunct TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, cameras, routers, electric toothbrushes, headphones. This is “electrical and electronic equipment,” aka EEE—anything with a plug or battery. It’s increasingly out of control.As…

Video game Fortnite is being used – to help put an end to e-waste. Electronics retailer, Currys, has launched its first-ever game, “Trash Tycoon”, inside the Fortnite universe. The free-of-charge virtual experience aims to inspire Gen Z to make better choices when binning unused, unwanted, or even broken tech.And it challenges players to go head-to-head on a mission to mine and recycle as much trash as possible, for valuable in-game and real-life rewards worth more than £1,000.It comes after a poll of 1,000 Gen Z adults,…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Microsoft's decision to stop supporting Windows 10 by October 2025 could lead to a surge in electronic waste, warns Canalys Research. An estimated 240 million personal computers might become obsolete, potentially contributing to a hefty 480 million-kilogram pile of electronic waste – equivalent to the weight of 320,000 cars. …

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 owners can now fix their phones through the company's self-repair service. The do-it-yourself program is expanding so that more Galaxy products, including foldables and tablets, are included in the iFixit collaboration.Samsung said it will add seven more products this month to its list of devices that are eligible for self-repair – from PCs, smartphones and tablets — including the Galaxy S23 series, Tab S9 series and the Galaxy Book2 Pro series. The program provides users with original…

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To reduce electronic waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions from plastic, future computer chips might use a substrate made of mushrooms. This isn’t something out of the Mario Bros. movie, either. That doesn’t mean you’ll have toadstools mounted on the motherboard. A paper published in the journal Science Advances (and spotted by ZDNet) details the process that uses only mushrooms’ skin to create a biodegradable base for electronics. Electronics can get hot in use, and soldering requires high temperatures, so the…

ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would collapse. This came after I sought the chatbot’s guidance on what questions to ask the man who this week received the ACM Turing Award, the $1 million prize dubbed the Nobel of computing. The AI oracle suggested I stick to quizzing him on his famous accomplishments—inventing Ethernet, starting the 3Com Corporation, codifying the value of networks, and teaching students in Texas about innovation, which he did…

More than five billion of the estimated 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide will likely be discarded or stashed away in 2022, experts said Thursday, calling for more recycling of the often hazardous materials they contain. Stacked flat on top of each other, that many disused phones would rise 50,000 kilometres, more than a hundred times higher than the International Space Station, the WEEE research consortium found.Despite containing valuable gold, copper, silver, palladium and other recyclable components, almost…

Concerned over makers of cars, mobiles and other consumer goods monopolising repair and spare parts market, the government plans to make it mandatory for them to share with customers product details necessary for repair by self or third parties.The Department of Consumer Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that it has set up a committee — chaired by Nidhi Khare, Additional Secretary — to develop comprehensive framework on Right to Repair.Generally, manufacturers retain proprietary control over spare parts, including…