Category: Recycling

The issue of privacy relating to used cell phones has been called into question by lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce committee in Congress in the United States.

Last updated April 12, 2019As the number of cell phone users rises in the USA, the way we dispose of

Last updated April 12, 2019The scandal over the hacking of used cell phones by journalists involved with Rupert Murdoch’s media

Last updated April 12, 2019Ford has become the first automobile manufacturer to publically back the introduction of a nationwide ban

For photographers and would-be photographers out there who carry an iPhone, this should prove interesting and perhaps even useful news: a new gadget has been released that allows people to use their Canon and Nikon lenses with their iPhones.

The elements needed to make used cell phones can be found in abundance on the ocean floor, according to Japanese scientists.

How do used cell phones affect the parent – child relationship? That is the question which a new study set out to discover.

Federal agencies in the United States should be given more than 60 million dollars over the course of the next three years in order to help them promote cell phone recycling and the recycling of other electrical items in a bid to prevent them from ending us as landfill.

Ghana is importing an excess amount of old cell phones and other forms of electronic waste, according to the Ghana Shippers Authority. The Authority has released figures which show that that 31,400 metric tons of electronic waste, including but not limited to old cell phones, was imported into the country in 2010 alone.

Moves are underway to try to prevent the exporting of old cell phones, computers, televisions, and other electronic items to developing nations whose recycling programs are primitive at best.