In context: The Royal Mint, which has been producing British coins since the Middle Ages, is now adapting to a world where physical money is becoming less essential. In an effort to reinvent itself, ...

If you have one or more drawers filled with old gadgets and wires, you’re not alone. Decades of the tech sector’s pressure to “innovate or die” have led to a long list of useful and flashy household ...

Electronic Waste Recycling is now an RSC partner! Please visit help.rit.edu for more information or to schedule eWaste pickups. Like all colleges and universities, RIT has a need for a large amount of ...

In the past two months, Apple, Google and Samsung have all unveiled their newest smartphones and other devices with the goal of getting consumers to upgrade ahead of the holidays. But in the process, ...

Indonesia is the fourth-most-populous country and one of the largest electronics consumers in the world. As a result, it has a sizeable share of used electronics and electrical equipment, known as ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation's capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...

Just past the visitor’s center is a mountain of garbage. Refrigerators, desk chairs and shopping carts, stacked in a hulking heap. Around the corner, past the “tipping floor”where compactors shovel ...

KLANG: A nationwide crackdown on illegal e-waste processing saw 110 locations raided, with authorities seizing more than RM55.2mil worth of e-waste and scrap metal. The integrated operation, codenamed ...