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Recycling should come after we’ve got every bit of use out of a product. Read up on how to properly recycle your gadgets, and who’s already doing it right.

Recycling

Recycling Industry Verifies iFixit’s Repairability Findings

Dell’s products have consistently impressed us with their modularity and repairability. Time and time again, Dell’s products have scored well on our teardown table. The Dell XPS 10 even tops…

April 12, 2014

by Julia Bluff

Recycling

Pope Praises Informal Recyclers

Reuse just got one more advocate: Pope Francis. The newly instated Pope, who has long been an activist for the world's poor, recently commended the efforts of the world's "cartoneros"—informal…

December 21, 2013

by Julia Bluff

Recycling

How One Teacher Built a Computer Lab for Free

In a sunny Bay Area classroom, twenty sixth graders are working at computers. They are making websites—"MySpace" pages for figures from American History. One student is researching Frederick Douglass's five…

August 3, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain

E-Waste

Apple Ditches Green Standard, Cuts Federal Agencies from Products

Federal agencies can no longer buy Apple products for their offices. According to a recent announcement, Apple will be pulling all of their products from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment…

July 6, 2012

by Kyle Wiens

Recycling

Consumer Electronics Recycling Up 53% in 2011

The Consumer Electronics Association reported yesterday that consumer electronics recycling increased 53% in 2011, up to 460 million pounds of responsibly recycled electronics, from 300 million pounds in 2010. CEA…

April 17, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain

Recycling

Let No Good Part Go to Waste

I found this bike leaning against a wall in Kisumu, Kenya, which is a port city on Lake Victoria at the south-west corner of the country. The bike is welded…

April 8, 2012

by Kyle Wiens

Recycling

Where 4,000,000 Cell Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected

When you donate a phone to Cell Phones for Soldiers, or Sprint Project Connect, or The March of Dimes, it will end up at the Recellular warehouse. I sat down…

March 8, 2012

by Kyle Wiens

Recycling

Guess This Mystery Item

Can you guess what this is? Tell me in the comments.

February 25, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain

Recycling

UK Company ReVend Revamps Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling

Lots of people know that they shouldn't be throwing away batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, and other pieces of household hazardous waste. But what should you be doing instead? The UK…

February 2, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain

Recycling

More Proof You Shouldn’t Blindly Trust Your e-Waste Recycler

As a follow-up to my recent post about e-waste recycling certification, I thought I’d share a story about a “recycler” caught in the act of illegally shipping used electronics to…

January 27, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain