Tag: E-Waste
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The Week in Pictures: Newt Gingrich's Colony on the Moon, a Folding Microcar, and More
Newt Gingrich wants a colony on the moon -- here's what it could look like. A folding car is headed for production, Porto Alegre may have the world's most beautiful street and more.
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Furniture Made of Encapsulated E-Waste Is Perfect for Geeky Abodes
These designs made by Rodrigo Alonso Schramm are an interesting way to keep e-waste out of landfills and in your livingroom.
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E-Waste Isn't Cute: That Singing Valentine’s Day Card is Illegal to Throw Away in California
Generation Green points out the hazards of those "cute" singing cards that pop up during the holidays, and provide us with a petition to get manufacturers to stop making them.
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It's Official: Solar Modules Count As E-Waste
Known to be an environmental issue for ages, the EU finally determined that solar panels have to be collected and treated as e-waste.
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Computer Monitors Transformed Into Community Trash Bins
A clever design idea takes old TVs and computer monitors and turns the outer shell into public waste bins to clean up neighborhoods.
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This E-Waste Infographic Raises More Questions than It Answers
How much e-waste is there, anyway? How reliable is the available data? And why is it important to find out? This infographic has been making the rounds on the internet for a while. But I'm skeptical.
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iFixit Launches New Website Dedicated to Repair Gurus Around the World
One of our favorite gadget repair sites is taking another angle at DIY, focusing on the people with the skills to bring devices back from the dead.
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State of Green Business Report Takes Temperature of E-Waste, Energy Efficiency
GreenBiz has released their 5th annual report on what's shaking in cleantech. The long and short of it is, "Things aren’t going as well as we’d hoped."
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What's The Real Cost of the World's Cheapest Tablet Device?
How might making the world's cheapest tablet change our planet, from manufacturing to recycling?
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Self-Healing Electronics Work More Reliably and Could Reduce Waste
Remember Dad or Grandpa going thru Christmas lights one-by-one to find the broken light?
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UK Company Aims to Reduce E-Waste, Looks Toward Closed-Loop Future for Electronics Industry
UK startup WEEE Systems has ambitious plans for addressing e-waste and moving the electronics industry toward a closed-loop system.
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The Environmental Cost of Electronic Fabrics
E-textiles sound great, but are we really looking at the big picture of environmental impact?
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178 Countries Support Ban on Toxic Waste Exports to Developing Countries
178 Countries Agree to Allow the Ban on Exports of Toxic Wastes to Developing Countries to Become Law
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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we've talked about traveling on a floating cloud.
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Reusa, Reduce, Recicla: YoReciclo Brings Recycling to Mexico
At first, YoReciclo collected just two materials for recycling, and managed about 10 tons a month. Now, the Mexico-based company is up to 25 materials, including types of plastic not recyclable in most of the U.S., and
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Sweet! Apple iMacs Recycled Into Awesome "iMacquariums" (Photos)
Photos: iMacquarium website Electronic waste is a huge environmental issue that carries global impact. Though there are plenty of interesting e-waste recycling ideas out there, here is probably one of the most creative re-use strategies we've seen for
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New E-Waste Recycling Opportunities
As new electronics are introduced all the time, the piles of e-waste grow and grow. According to the EPA, the United States on the whole throws out over 2 million tons of e-waste a year, which equals nearly 216 million units.
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Old TVs, Suitcases and VCRs Upcycled into Vintage Pet Products
Design firm AtomicAttic loves vintage, and vintage plus the urge to create new things is the perfect recipe for upcycling. Their most interesting work is made for pets. In Miles and Aimee's workshop, old television
