Electronic Waste

• Winnipeg student hosts e-waste drive to properly dispose old electronics

  Throwing your electronics in the trash sends them to a landfill where they'll take hundreds of years to decompose, according to the Green Action Centre.

  Environment

  Jul 18, 2021
  
• ‘It doesn’t belong in our landfills’: What to do with your old electronics

  Officials behind Waste Reduction Week hope more people will choose proper depots to get rid of old electronics, rather than letting them go to waste in landfills.

  Consumer

  Oct 20, 2018
  
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• Worldwide electronic waste hit a new record at 45 million tonnes last year

  The weight of e-waste in 2016 was equivalent to about 4,500 Eiffel Towers.

  World

  Dec 13, 2017
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• Gold mining takes on a new meaning at the University of Saskatchewan

  Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have created a new way to solve a growing problem in gold metal waste.

  Science

  Feb 15, 2017
• Electronic waste skyrockets in Canada

  A new Statistics Canada study has found that electronic waste across Canada has nearly tripled in just four years.

  Environment

  May 24, 2016
• Electronic waste is piling up. Here’s why you should care

  E-waste, in a society that clamours for smaller, better, faster, newer, is piling up. And there are consequences.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2015
• Kenya working towards safer disposal of the world’s e-waste

  Much of the world's e-waste is exported to developing countries like India and Kenya in the form of used goods, where it ends up in landfills or is burned.

  Environment

  Aug 22, 2014
• Intel says its processors are now ‘conflict-free’

  Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of computer processors, says its processors are now free of minerals from mines held by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  Tech

  Jan 8, 2014