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Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

A few things have progressed since my studies, but #ewaste recycling im #India calls for the dexterity of informal businesses. The formal efforts keep on adding harm.
Rest of The World reports on gov pressure and producer protest

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

☣️ In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/29/sustainability/philippine-e-waste-dismantle-health/
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In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
Scavenging electronic waste for the nickel, aluminum and copper inside releases a toxic brew of chemicals, including lead, mercury and cadmium, into the air.

Informal e-waste recycling in Pakistan: A hidden environmental crisis #Pakistan

Informal e-waste recycling in Pakistan: A hidden environmental crisis
When I began my research on electronic waste in Pakistan, I quickly realized how deeply it touches both our environment and our daily lives. We live in an age where technology evolves faster than ever—phones, laptops, and televisions are replaced at a breathtaking pace. But what happens to the old ones? For many in developing nations like mine, the answer lies in informal recycling practices.

Tech companies that sell hardware tend to specialize in making future e-waste.

CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning
Gangda Xiong, Tao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24694 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24694

CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning
To automatically tune configurations for the best possible system performance (e.g., runtime or throughput), much work has been focused on designing intelligent heuristics in a tuner. However, existing tuner designs have mostly ignored the presence of complex performance requirements (e.g., the latency shall ideally be 2 seconds), but simply assume that better performance is always more preferred. This would not only waste valuable information in a requirement but might also consume extensive r…

Green Grid: Smart Tech Meets E-Waste
Yashodip Dharmendra Jagtap, Aaditya Ganesh Bagul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08888 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08888

Green Grid: Smart Tech Meets E-Waste
Electronic waste (e-waste) is a rapidly growing global problem caused by shorter device lifecycles and rising consumption. India ranks third globally in e-waste generation, producing over 1.7 million tonnes in 2023-24, of which less than half is formally processed. To address this, we propose Green Grid, an integrated AI-powered e-waste management platform combining IoT-enabled smart collection, AI-based device classification, blockchain-based traceability, and gamified citizen engagement. The …

Silicon valley e-waste invisibility trick.
#ewaste #pollution
https://gerrymcgovern.com/silic…

"From e-waste to e-winner: Amazon’s bet on resale for a more circular electronics economy"
#Amazon #EWaste #Technology

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making https://www.404media.co/the-end-of-windows-10-support-is-an-e-waste-disaster-in-the-making/

Understanding Spatial Regression Models from a Weighting Perspective in an Observational Study of Superfund Remediation
Sophie M. Woodward, Francesca Dominici, Jose R. Zubizarreta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19572

Understanding Spatial Regression Models from a Weighting Perspective in an Observational Study of Superfund Remediation
Superfund sites are locations in the United States with high levels of environmental toxicants, often resulting from industrial activity or improper waste management. Given mounting evidence linking prenatal environmental exposures to adverse birth outcomes, estimating the impact of Superfund remediation is of substantial policy relevance. A widespread approach is to fit a spatial regression, i.e., a linear regression of the outcome (e.g., birth weight) on binary treatment (e.g., indicator for …

Understanding the oxidation of pure Tungsten in air and its impact on the lifecycle of a fusion power plant
R. Li, G. \'Alvarez, A. Ipakchi, L. Cupertino-Malheiros, M. R. Gilbert, E. Mart\'inez-Pa\~neda, E. Prestat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22031

Understanding the oxidation of pure Tungsten in air and its impact on the lifecycle of a fusion power plant
The oxidation of pure W and the sublimation of W oxide have been investigated to assess their impact on the lifecycle of a fusion power plant. Pure W has been oxidised at temperatures between 400 and 1050C and for durations ranging between 1 and 70 h. The formation of voids and cracks has been observed at temperatures above 600C, leading to the formation of dust or oxide spalling, which could be problematic in maintenance and waste-handling scenarios of a fusion power plant. Preferential oxidat…

This is just such a waste of money.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115343249383566862

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image Europe is upping its game in AI. Researchers, innovators & policymakers now have stronger support to shape the future of science. Today we launched two AI strategies to boost EU leadership in scientific innovation: 🥼 AI in Science 🔹Access to AI Factories & Gigafactories 🔹Stronger EU & global cooperation 🔹 Impact on major challenges such as climate change and health 🔬 Apply AI: 🔹Enhances EU tech sovereignty 🔹Targeted actions to boost AI in key secto…

Is your computer going to turn into e-waste?
https://14102025.info/

"UK e-waste compliance rules extended to Amazon and other online retailers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EWaste

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/the-clothes-that-never-die-how-fast-fashion-is-burying-africa-in-plastic/

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. The acrid stench clings to the air; marabou storks pick over scraps alongside people searching for plastic bottles or bones. Interspersed among the refuse are scraps […]

♻️ 'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
#technology

'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera.

So we've been using a Neato vacuum robot for years. It works and with cats having the main living areas vacuumed every day was great. Now the company who bought them no longer wants to run the backend cloud service that allows the robot to actually run on a schedule which is the point of the whole operation.
Vorwerk just created a whole lot of e-waste for shits and giggles.