How to Use e-waste in a Sentence

e-waste

noun
  • So how can more e-waste be brought into the reverse supply chain?
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Electronics in the waste stream:Your old cellphone and printer are e-waste.
    The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
  • Refunds or not, there will still be many useless hunks of e-waste left behind.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 May 2024
  • Abubakar handles all manner of e-waste, but the phones are his specialty.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Consumers have no way to tell which black plastics might be recycled e-waste and which aren’t.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That can cause fires, and further contribute to the growing e-waste problem.
    Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The technique could go a long way towards helping tackle the growing problem of e-waste.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
  • That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
  • For most users, the Spotify Car Thing is just another piece of e-waste humans will have to deal with later.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Less than 1% of rare earth metals found in e-waste are currently recycled.
    Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
  • Not only is e-waste a huge problem but tossing batteries can cause fires.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 June 2024
  • The Pin becomes e-waste, and Humane doesn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the revenue by selling it again.
    Kylie Robison, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There goes another $19 straight to the world’s most valuable company, and another scrap for the e-waste junkyard.
    Brian Barrett, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Businesses with a large quantity of e-waste can schedule a free pickup.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • These updates are the types of things that can help devices retain or improve their value, last longer, and become less likely to turn into e-waste.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Through the product, the company wants to help reduce e-waste, which can often accumulate at schools.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Gold is coaxed from e-waste with a protein amyloid nanofibril (AF) aerogel derived from whey, a by-product from cheese-making.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Retiring the Lightning cable could even generate, in the short term, a surge of e-waste as iPhone users toss their useless Lightning cables in a drawer.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • If all data can't be removed from a device, it gets recycled through a licensed recycler to keep e-waste out of landfills.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Best Buy also has an e-waste program that allows people to either recycle or trade in their old tech products.
    Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • Environment:Your old cellphone and printer are e-waste.
    The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Residents and businesses can drop off e-waste free of charge for recycling from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • The mint expects to process about 4,500 tons of e-waste, which includes circuit boards from televisions, computers and medical equipment, each year.
    Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Critics say this hurts the secondhand market, which benefits consumers and helps the smart, pricey devices avoid becoming e-waste.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Recycle it either through Apple or a reputable e-waste service.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In all, people across the world throw out roughly 9 billion kilograms (19.8 billion pounds) of e-waste commonly not recognized as such by consumers.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Digiconomist has estimated that a single bitcoin transaction may generate more e-waste than two iPhones (but less than an iPad).
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The team is exploring ways to recover other valuable materials such as copper and aluminum from e-waste.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Europe, for example, has fairly high formal e-waste recycling rates, at about 43 percent.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Some of what most consumers consider to be e-waste—like electronics such as computers, smartphones, TVs, and speaker systems—are usual suspects.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023

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