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Recycling protects healthcare data? Seems unlikely, doesn’t it? Not so fast. Recycling offers more benefits than just environmental protection. If you regularly visit your local medical center, chances are your top concerns are understanding what your health insurance covers, ensuring that your physician specializes in the area where you need treatment, and making sure all your healthcare needs are met. One thing you probably never think...

National security and e-waste have more in common than you might think. Here are a few things we know. Smartphones, everyone loves them. First, they tend to be compact, only weighing about five ounces. The technology behind them keeps expanding and expanding rapidly. If you enjoy what your smartphone can do, chances are by next year, a new version will come along that does even more. And that, in a nutshell, is one of our biggest chal...

This holiday season you should be thinking a lot about e-waste and data security, especially if you’re thinking of regifting a used phone, or making a little cash selling or recycling your device. During the holidays, electronics are a hot gift item. Consumers love giving them as presents and receiving them as presents. Sales of electronics soar during this time of year. And there’s often a temptation to avoid the big lines and crowds ...

On November 15th, online retail giant Amazon hosted something unique across the country: electronic waste collection events in five U.S. cities that showcased the benefits of e-waste recycling. Amazon invited residents to bring their old or unwanted consumer electronics – from computer monitors to cell phones, faxes, and printers – to places where recycling experts were on hand to educate people about the importance of properly disposing of a...

If you ever started losing power in your smartphone and fumed that it was only a few years old, you were probably even angrier when you learned the device couldn’t be repaired. There are two reasons for that. One, the majority of cell phone manufacturers don’t want customers to repair their cells and keep them for a longer period of time but instead upgrade to the newest version. That’s when you may have learned in frustration that the b...

There are a lot of good reasons to recycle your used electronics. Lithium-ion batteries in e-Waste is one of them. Recycling helps protect our environment, lowers the cost of manufacturing new products, and enables the e-waste recycling industry to create jobs. Low recycling rates for e-waste are a worldwide problem. It requires a global solution. We need to improve our recycling rates for e-waste. But another reason to recycle e-waste i...

Waste management is becoming a bigger challenge across the globe. And that's particularly true of e-Waste. When the first International E-Waste Day was announced for Oct. 13, organizers invited the public to consider some sobering facts about how waste management and e-Waste are impacting our lives. Developed by the WEEE Forum, an international association of e-waste collection organizations in 20 nations, this new annual day was designed t...

The time appears to have arrived for green electronics recycling. Last April, Apple announced that its global facilities would be powered entirely by clean energy. That's a 100% commitment to fighting climate change and working toward a healthier environment. Their clean energy now fuels Apple offices, retail stores, and data centers in 43 countries. It's what Apple CEO Tim Cook called a commitment to “leaving the world better than we fou...

If someone asked you what can be done about e-Waste, what would you say? When the subject of e-waste comes up, it’s usually in an environmental context. The image most people have of e-waste is electronics device that are mass produced, like smart phones, and get updated so rapidly that the number of used phones being discarded keeps rising. Since only about a third of unwanted smartphones gets recycled today, that means most end up in a ...

In the United States, there are no federal environmental laws that deal with the disposal of e-waste or address the environmental impact of tossing used electronics out with regular household trash. The states have no federal rules to follow, no regulations to be complied with when it comes to electrical waste recycling. Basically, the issue has been left to the states to decide, and 25 states and the District of Columbia have responded by dra...