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Where to sell your used and unwanted gadgets
Here's how to sell your used gadgets and where you can get the most money for them.
Kris Naudus03.21.2024
Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets
Here are all of the ways you can recycle your old gadgets, from national programs to state-specific initiatives and store programs.
Kris Naudus03.15.2024
Apple's batteries will use 100 percent recycled cobalt by 2025
Apple has pledged to use 100 percent recycled cobalt in device batteries by 2025.
Jon Fingas04.13.2023
Best Buy’s new recycling program will let you mail in your old electronics
Best Buy announced today that it’s extending its gadget recycling program to include a new mail-in option. The retailer will now sell you a box for your used electronics that you can ship back for recycling, saving a trip to the store.
Will Shanklin04.05.2023
South Carolina EV battery recycling plant could salvage parts for a million cars a year
Redwood Materials will help make EVs eco-friendly thanks to a major battery recycling plant in South Carolina.
Jon Fingas12.14.2022
Water recycling technologies developed for space are helping a parched American west
To ensure humanity has enough to drink, some of NASA’s cutting-edge in-orbit water recycling research is coming back down to Earth.
Andrew Tarantola11.24.2022
Black market fears are hampering cannabis waste recycling efforts in California
In California, the nation’s largest legal cannabis market, 510-thread cartridges are popular to the point of ubiquity but, due to the state’s strict hazardous waste disposal regulations, difficult to dispose of in a responsible manner.
Andrew Tarantola11.16.2022
Sony made a version of the LinkBuds S using recycled water bottles
Sony debuts a new version of its LinkBuds S earbuds that are made with recycled water bottles.
Billy Steele10.25.2022
HMD's Nokia launches a smartphone subscription service with eco-friendly twists
HMD’s Nokia announced a new subscription plan that it says will “reward users” for keeping their phone for longer.
Mat Smith09.01.2022
Dell's Concept Luna shows how future laptops could be easier to repair and recycle
Working with Intel, Dell has created a new PC called Concept Luna with the aim of making future PCs easier to repair, reuse and recycle.
Steve Dent12.14.2021
The Ford Bronco Sport contains trace amounts of recycled ocean plastic
Ford says the Bronco Sport is the first car to use parts made solely of recycled ocean plastic, but the company still has a long way to go in 'greening' its lineup.
Jon Fingas12.08.2021
Microsoft made a wireless mouse out of recycled ocean plastic
The company says the Ocean Plastic Mouse is a small step forward in its 'larger sustainability journey.'
Kris Holt09.22.2021
Nissan is testing a more efficient way to recycle rare-earth metals from EV motors
Working since 2017 with Tokyo’s Waseda University, Nissan says it has developed and recently started testing a new recycling process that is far a more efficient and cost-effective method of recovering rare-earth metals from electric motors.
Igor Bonifacic09.03.2021
Apple says selling new iPhones without power adapters will save 861,000 tons of metal
The company highlighted carbon capture and energy efficiency in its 2021 Environmental Progress Report.
Kris Holt04.16.2021
Specialized partners with a Tesla co-founder to recycle e-bike batteries
By all accounts, e-bikes are having a bit of a moment: at one point during the pandemic, sales of powered bicycles outpaced all others by a considerable margin. The appealing of easy, socially distanced rides can be hard to ignore, but the resulting boom in sales has led to a pivotal moment for e-bike makers: What do they do with the batteries once they can’t power rides anymore?
Chris Velazco03.18.2021
Lasso is working on a recycling center for the home
The collection boxed could merely be redistributed to manufacturers and turned into new products that don’t require any additional materials. Aldous Hicks, CEO of Lasso, believes that everyone should treat recycling like washing clothes and dishes.
Nick Summers01.12.2021
Apple sues recycler for allegedly reselling 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches
Apple has filed a lawsuit against its former contractor GEEP Canada for allegedly reselling over 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches that were supposed to be disassembled and recycled.
Steve Dent10.05.2020
HP's first Intel 11th-gen laptops use recycled ocean-bound plastics
HP's latest 13-, 14- and 15-inch Pavilion clamshell laptops are the company’s first to use post-consumer-recycled and “ocean-bound” plastics.
Steve Dent09.22.2020
Microsoft details its plan to become ‘water positive’ by 2030
Microsoft plans to replenish more water than it uses by 2030.
Christine Fisher09.21.2020