With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The World Economic Forum recently reported that global electronic waste (e-waste) generation has exceeded 65 million tons annually.

Enterprise tech is a major contributor to the e-waste problem, and IT leaders are key to addressing it. The number of devices slated for enterprise use is, in part, what's driving the growing amount ...

In 2022, humans generated roughly 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – or e-waste. That’s enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. And by 2030, that figure is expected to rise to 82 ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to discarded electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other consumer or industrial electronics that are no longer functional or needed. These ...

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. Generative AI could account ...