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Clever clothing that can sense health issues are not far off, but they could prove hard to recycle or reuse.
In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.
Seeing more refurbished electronic devices on the market? Thank tech innovation – and the government regulation that sparked it.
The new method could also make small-scale gold mining less poisonous for people – and the planet.
Inside every smartphone and laptop are tiny specks of valuable materials, many of which are still lost even when you take your old electronics to a recycling center.
But there are some simple steps you can take to keep your personal information safe.
The PFAS in lithium-ion batteries is a major obstacle to recycling or disposing of these batteries safely. But we have a way to fix this problem.
Urban mining recovers valuable resources from the vast amounts of waste cities produce.
Allowing our spent lithium batteries to be exported free of charge could mean forfeiting a potential $3 billion onshore reprocessing industry.
Between reuse and recycling, what happens to the batteries of electric vehicles?
There is an urgent need for legislation dealing specifically with electronic waste in Nigeria.
With an average shelf life of nine years, the coming tsunami of waste EV batteries needs action now.
Rare-earth metals are currently mined or recovered via e-waste recycling — methods with drawbacks including high cost, environmental damage, and risks to human safety. This is where we come in.
Technical advances are reducing the volume of e-waste generated in the US as lighter, more compact products enter the market. But those goods can be harder to reuse and recycle.
E-cigarettes are hotly debated because of the uncertainty of whether they are a gateway to cigarette smoking for teens, or an aid to smoking cessation. One thing is clear: They are not biodegradable.
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Associate Professor of Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
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Lecturer, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Chercheur sur le stockage de l’énergie dans les transports, Université Gustave Eiffel
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Research associate, Environmental Health Initiative, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Senior Research Engineer in Electric Vehicle Batteries and Battery Storage, Edith Cowan University
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Professor and Head, Centre for Green and Smart Energy Systems, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Bio-innovation and Enterprise, Coventry University
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Research Active Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Scientist in circular economy, CSIRO
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Principal Research Scientist and Team Leader for Remediation Technologies, CSIRO