Running your favorite AI chatbots requires updated hardware—and this means throwing functional equipment in the trash. It's ...

Under the more aggressive scenario, total e-waste creation due to generative AI could grow as high as 5 million metric tons ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In a world filled with electronic gadgets, it’s easy to forget what happens to old devices. Fortunately, organizations like the e-opala Computer Recycling Center and ...

Plastics make up around a quarter of the materials contained in electronic waste (e-waste). The proportion that is recycled ...

Grid E-Waste Management Toolkit" guides sustainable e-waste management in off-grid solar projects, promoting a circular ...

INDIVIDUALS and businesses are being encouraged to dispose of their electronic waste (e-waste) responsibly by taking them in to the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA ...

The researchers in the study published October 28, 2024, focused on e-waste produced from generative AI algorithms — types of AI that generate texts, images, videos or music from massive datasets.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Silicon Valley arms race to build more powerful artificial intelligence programs could lead to a massive increase in electronic waste, research published Monday warns. Leading tech ...

The developer’s group managing director Tan Sri Khor Eng Chuen said the main aim of the park was to address the issue with e-waste management. “It has come to a point where e-waste is ever ...

The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of more than 10 billion iPhones per year by 2030, researchers ...

Nov. 5, 2024 — New research has shown that bio-based fibers caused higher mortality, and reduced growth and reproductivity, among earthworms -- a species critical to the health of soils globally ...

There is a need to reduce electronic waste as well as popularise and encourage the use of the recycling sector in Bangladesh, says Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan. She made the statement ...