Sources and trends The Nature study on the effects of AI on e-waste used “material flow analysis” to project the growth in demand for hardware.

The project, called E-Waste in Ghana: Tracing Transboundary Flows, which won this year's Fondation Carmignac photojournalism award, aims to capture both the positive and negative aspects of e-waste.

Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Nirupam Aich, University at Buffalo engineering researcher, set out to study the hazards of electronic waste recycling after learning about illegal shipments of this waste from ...

U.N. agencies have warned about the escalating accumulation of electronic waste globally, coupled with declining recycling rates. This waste, known as "e-waste," encompasses discarded devices with ...

Every year, the world produces over 40 million tons of e-waste; discarded electronic components that are filled with valuable metals and thousands of harmful toxins. It's quickly becoming a looming ...

Emmanuel Akatire, 20, roams around e-waste processing areas with a sack, sorting through discarded e-waste materials and separating them by material — copper, iron and aluminum — for sale.

Additionally, e-waste can also release pollutants such as dioxins and furans, which can have harmful effects on human health and the environment.

Dr. Murtala mentioned that e-waste poses a significant environmental risk, stressing that e-waste is more hazardous than other municipal waste streams as it contains potentially harmful chemicals ...

Toxic impact of improper disposal Improper disposal of e-waste, including incineration or informal dismantling, releases a range of toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the environment.

The Bangladesh government has taken no effective steps to implement the e-waste management regulations it introduced more than a year back, as the rules relating to it are stuck in procedural ...

We need to observe the life cycle of an electronic product to understand the reality of how e-waste is generated and where its fate lies.