The Environmental Audit Committee prepares to address the mounting issue of electronic waste, with MPs investigating the sector’s growth and challenges, including Amazon’s absence from the proceedings

In this week’s Net Hero Podcast, we spoke Nirav Patel, Founder of modular laptops company, Framework, who said that the electronics industry is inaccessible to its consumers

Could a laptop you update yourself be the key to cutting down electronic waste?

The launch of a common charging solution is expected to reduce e-waste

Under the new rules, USB Type-C will become the common charging port for electronic devices, including mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, handheld video game consoles and portable speakers

An investigation found one of the brothers submitted fictitious claims for the recycling of around 10,600 tonnes of e-waste, with his company receiving payment to the value of £1.48m from a producer compliance scheme

That’s the suggestion by Alex de Vries, Economist and Data Scientist who spoke to ELN about his new research on the mountains of electronic waste produced by cryptocurrency mining

Coventry University’s Professor of Bio-innovation and Enterprise, Sebastien Farnaud, has talked to ELN about a sustainable way to recover precious materials from e-waste using bacteria

The research of scientists from Nanyang Technological University Singapore aims to address food and e-waste challenges

Worryingly, researchers expect the global generation of electronic waste to grow to 74.7Mt by 2030