Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total. Generative AI could account ...

A police team examining a mountain of e-waste found at a factory by the Sungai Siput-Kuala Kangsar road in Perak last month. (Bernama pic) Illegal e-waste operations have made the headlines in ...

仕事に、人生に効く一冊。 自分軸で決めた十人十色の働き方インタビュー Popular Science：毎年、私たち人間は何百万トンものE-waste（電気電子機器廃棄物）を生み出し、有害物質を世界中の埋立地に送り込んでいます。これは、ガジェット好きなアメリカ人 ...

As technology accelerates, so too does Australia's electronic waste problem. "With generative AI [artificial intelligence], there's a lot of waste and new waste streams coming from data centres," ...

As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. According to a UN report released last year ...

Dexter Barsigan has spent the past 13 years making a living with his bare hands and a pair of pliers, stripping scrapped laptops and air conditioners for metal he can sell to junk shops in the ...

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