Amazon wants to keep track of where its packaging goes after leaving the customers. The company has teamed up with Glacier, which uses AI to detect different types of recyclable materials.
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Windows 10 support will be ending in less than two years and there is widespread concern about the amount of e-waste as many PCs won't be upgradable. An unofficial app seeks to help in this regard.
The end of free support on Windows 10 in October 2025 could see 240 million PCs sent to landfill because they can't get Windows 11. Read on for some ideas of what to do with unsupported PCs.
The WEEE Forum found that over 5 billion mobile phones today will end up as e-waste. According to them, users might keep their phones in drawers or toss them into bins instead of recycling them.
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Google's new Chrome OS Flex is out of early testing and is now generally available. Chrome OS Flex basically brings a lot of the benefits of Chrome OS to Windows and Mac, barring a few caveats.
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In Japan, there are AMD Ryzen vending machines which, on payment of ¥1000, give out older CPUs either AMD or Intel. These appear to be fun arcade games meant to recycle older processors and boxes.
Microsoft must introduce the Right to Repair to reduce the enormous e-waste, says As You Sow. As You Sow is a body overlooking the environmental impacts of corporate practices and expansion.
A newly released study shows that we aren't doing a good job of recycling, as globally we are producing 49.2 million tons of e-waste and only recycling about 20 percent through proper channels.
