NEW YORK -- When Office Depot stores ran an electronics recycling drive last summer that accepted everything from cell phones to televisions, some stores were overwhelmed by the amount of e-trash they ...

Reaching behind shoes and file folders, I grope around my closet until I find what I’m looking for: a Toshiba Satellite laptop. I’d owned it since 1991, and hadn’t used it in 15 years. It had moved ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — Like a landfill, the list of what not to recycle piles up: skip the Styrofoam, pass on the plastic bags. Pass on the pizza boxes, too, but only if they're too greasy and gross. The ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — When someone gets a new gadget like a phone, computer, tablet, or TV device, what do you do with the old one? It’s easy just to toss it in the trash, but that’s a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Daniela De Lorenzo is a Oslo-based reporter covering sustainability. In the middle of January in the Norwegian capital, startup ...

Turning waste into something of value is a long process, one that Professors Bar-Ziv and Long are tackling with their pilot-scale solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation (STRAP) technology. Once ...

Rockdale County-based electronic waste disposal employment program Work4Eli is hosting a "Tech the Halls" E-Waste Drive this week. Work4Eli was created as a way to keep e-waste out of landfills and to ...

Tech Trash accepts a wide range of electronic devices, including laptops, printers, and other items that require proper recycling. The company offers free pickup services and certified data ...

The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research ...