Sixth Tone

The Chinese Clan Networks Behind the World’s Biggest Electronics Market

In Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei, family networks, overseas connections, and decades of migration helped merchants from Chaoshan ...
The Conversation

Poison or poverty: the impossible economic choices facing Ghana’s e‑waste workers

Agbogbloshie, in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, is a sprawling, open-air scrapyard located next to a lagoon and a growing informal settlement. Roughly 6,000 people dismantle, recycle and burn old and ...
abc13

2026 ABC13 Earth Day E-Cycle Drive sets event record with 132K lbs. of electronic waste collected

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- ABC13 viewers came from all over the Houston area to take part in our 19th annual Earth Day E-Cycle Drive at CompuCycle, and in doing so, helped set a record. During the 2026 ...
Mongabay

The digital graveyard: Is Bangladesh becoming China’s e-waste back door?

Bangladesh is becoming a major destination for global e-waste due to rising imports and weak regulation of imported electronic products. In addition, illegal imports and misdeclared shipments have ...
Fort Collins Coloradoan

Where in Fort Collins to dump batteries, paint and e-waste for free

Need to get rid of old paint, batteries and cleaning supplies that have been cluttering up your garage? For one day only, Fort Collins residents can dispose of them for free. The city of Fort Collins ...
Rest of World

AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse

This essay was first published in our Global Dispatch newsletter. Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox. I’m sure my family in Mumbai is a lot like yours: three old smartphones sit unused in a ...
The Washington Post

Innovation is the way out of China’s chokehold on critical minerals

A processor chip at an e-waste recycling facility in Ghaziabad, India on Feb. 12. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images) The United States cannot compete with China when it comes to the mining and ...
Crude Oil Prices

How China Plans to Tackle Its Massive Solar Panel Waste Problem

The global solar power boom, largely fueled by China's dominant manufacturing, is set to create a staggering 88 million tons of solar waste by 2050. Recycling solar panels remains costly and complex, ...
Fast Company

HP is mining its own e-waste to build its latest laptops

Inside a new HP laptop, the copper in its heat sink comes straight from old HP devices—making the company the first to reuse its own recycled metal in a closed loop. In partnership with HP, the New ...
Interesting Engineering

‘Urban mine’: Collaborative method unlocks critical minerals from electronic waste

E‑waste in the United States may soon be more than a growing environmental problem. Researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new supply‑chain model that could make recycling ...
Associated Press

Malaysia bans e-waste imports, vows to end illegal dumping

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Used charging cables and power adapters are ...
Cfr.org

Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance

The United States cannot out-mine and out-process China. Instead, it should leapfrog China’s dominance by scaling disruptive innovation, recovery, and recycling. The Trump administration is pursuing ...