In Pictures: Daunting photos of a village built to handle electronic waste
Stripped computers and air-conditioners are part of daily Chinese village life.
Australia is a big generator of e-waste per capita, and the systems in place to recycle technology are lacking compared to schemes in Japan, Finland and Germany, according to a new report.
Analyst firm Gartner is forecasting that the IoT will encompass some 30 billion connected devices by 2020. And while networking vendor Cisco has pegged the IoT's value at $14.4 trillion between 2013 and 2022, questions are being asked over its potential environment cost.
Stripped computers and air-conditioners are part of daily Chinese village life.
Brazil, India, China and many others are e-waste graveyards
A new standard has been published for safe and environmentally sound handling of electronic waste in Australia and New Zealand.
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman.