Best Buy wants to keep electronics out of landfills — for a price. In order to cut back on e-waste, the retailer in April launched a home pick-up recycling service. Now, customers anywhere in the U.S.

From defective household electronics to old smartphones: the total amount of e-waste generated around the world this year is estimated to reach a record 57.4 million tonnes -- that is, more than the ...

If you have one or more drawers filled with old gadgets and wires, you’re not alone. Decades of the tech sector’s pressure to “innovate or die” have led to a long list of useful and flashy household ...

How to recycle old phones and electronics – and why doing so is good for your wallet - Components such as steel, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, plastics and even glass, can be recovered and reused ...

We think a lot about where products come from when we buy them, less so about where they go when we're finished. When we throw things away, this is "away": mountains of garbage across acres of land, ...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, can’t just be thrown into the landfill like regular garbage. State law does not allow consumers to place these potentially hazardous materials in home trash or recycling ...

Check your junk drawer at home, and you’re likely to find a tangled mess of electronic device chargers—many of them probably obsolete. Late last week the European Union proposed a new regulation that ...