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Over 80 percent of the e-waste generated ends up in landfills or incinerators – which results in chemicals leaching into the ...

The researchers say their new, less wasteful tags could help lower the retail sector's reliance on RFID chips, which use more than 10 billion tags annually. Most tags are used just once, and end up in ...

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DoD has awarded a $5.1 million contract to Rare Resource Recycling (REEcycle) to extract rare earth minerals from electronic ...

Malaysia is grappling with a growing electronic waste crisis. In 2021, the Department of Environment (DoE) collected 2,459 ...

The challenge is compounded by South Africa’s landfill crisis—many landfills across the country are expected to run out of space within the next six years if recycling efforts do not accelerate. Image ...