Tag: E-Waste - Page 2
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Waste Silicon Being Reused in Flexible Lithium-Ion Batteries
Researchers at Rice University have found a way to reuse silicon that would otherwise be discarded to make better lithium-ion batteries.
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What You Can Get for Your Old Kindle
If you're upgrading to one of the new Kindle devices and want to recycle your old one, here are the current resell rates for some of the previous models.
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Amazon Debuts New Kindle Devices Not Even a Year After the Last Kindle Release
This new crop of devices comes less than a year after Amazon's last Kindle release. Will people ditch like-new Kindles to upgrade?
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ReliaTech Offers 100 Paid Internships To Boost E-Waste Recycling
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, with rapidly advancing technology compelling people to upgrade their gadgets multiple times a year instead of once a decade.
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Doing Away With Disposable Packaging
Go Box founder Laura Weiss has worked hard to make Portland (foodie paradise) just a little more sustainable, waste wise, with her system of reusable to go containers.
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Far More Gold Is in E-Waste than in Gold Ore
Electronic waste contains 40-50 times the amount of gold in ore mined from the ground, according to a report last week by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and the United Nations University.
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Rio +20: Who is Really Responsible for Responsibility
TerraCycle looks at why all companies should begin a sustainability initiative.
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400 Million "Green" Cell Phones Will Be Shipped by 2017
The number of cell phones made with recycled content and without toxic chemicals in the hands of consumers will be 13 times what it is today in just five years.
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Teens Run E-Waste Recycling Business
15-year-old Jason Lin and his friends run iReTron.com, a business that buys, refurbishes and resells used electronics, from his family's garage.
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'Bio Computer' Blends Tech and Organic to Grow Wheatgrass
A self-described geek harvests the waste-heat of a computer tower to grow wheatgrass in his basement.
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Bikini Made of E-waste Makes Bold Statement About Women in Technology
Some people think that getting women engaged in technology will come if we blend it with fashion. Two artists have come up with a way to point out the problems with this strategy.
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100,000 Solar Charged LEDs Mimic Floating Fireflies in Tokyo Festival
A floating parade of LEDs designed to look like fireflies hit Tokyo this weekend, but raises the question of e-waste.
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The Week in Animal News: Cheetah-Dog Friendship, Robotic Animals from Old Computers and More
A cheetah and a yellow lab at Busch Gardens have been friends since they were little, an artist makes sweet robotic animals from e-waste and more.
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Broken Computers Come Alive as Robotic Animals
Artist turns old typewriters, cameras, modern printers and computers into birds, goats, squid, dinosaurs and more.
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The Week in Cleantech
A round up of cleantech stories that caught our eye this week, but we didn't have a chance to cover.
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French Web Site Rewards Green Actions with Presents (Video)
Cite Green is a French web site that rewards users' green actions with points, redeemable for gifts.
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Deep-Frozen Woman 'Denied' Eco-Burial
A dead woman frozen since 2009 specified she wanted an 'eco-burial' yet the Swedish state has yet to comply, threatening to give her a regular burial instead.
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See Inside a Canadian E-Waste Recycling Facility
Servers were the size of refrigerators and a single CPU chip had about $300 of gold when FCM Recycling started harvesting precious metals from computers.
