How to Use e-waste in a Sentence

e-waste

noun
  • So how can more e-waste be brought into the reverse supply chain?
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Electronics in the waste stream:Your old cellphone and printer are e-waste.
    — The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
  • Refunds or not, there will still be many useless hunks of e-waste left behind.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 May 2024
  • The $53 for this new fee is going for many new employees to do such things as picking up bulky items and e-waste.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Abubakar handles all manner of e-waste, but the phones are his specialty.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Consumers have no way to tell which black plastics might be recycled e-waste and which aren’t.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That can cause fires, and further contribute to the growing e-waste problem.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The technique could go a long way towards helping tackle the growing problem of e-waste.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
  • That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
  • For most users, the Spotify Car Thing is just another piece of e-waste humans will have to deal with later.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Less than 1% of rare earth metals found in e-waste are currently recycled.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
  • Not only is e-waste a huge problem but tossing batteries can cause fires.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 June 2024
  • Get rid of old, broken, and unused devices—even Lightning cables—without adding to the e-waste problem.
    — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Pin becomes e-waste, and Humane doesn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the revenue by selling it again.
    — Kylie Robison, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There goes another $19 straight to the world’s most valuable company, and another scrap for the e-waste junkyard.
    — Brian Barrett, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Over 600 pounds of e-waste were collected in November, the company says.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Businesses with a large quantity of e-waste can schedule a free pickup.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • These updates are the types of things that can help devices retain or improve their value, last longer, and become less likely to turn into e-waste.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The company is processing almost a million pounds of e-waste a year, and keeping it out of landfills, Helgesen said.
    — Joan Verdon, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Through the product, the company wants to help reduce e-waste, which can often accumulate at schools.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Gold is coaxed from e-waste with a protein amyloid nanofibril (AF) aerogel derived from whey, a by-product from cheese-making.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Some e-waste centers refurbish old PCs for families in need.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
  • Retiring the Lightning cable could even generate, in the short term, a surge of e-waste as iPhone users toss their useless Lightning cables in a drawer.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • That could mean producing up to 50 pounds of these critical minerals per hour from every ton of e-waste processed.
    — Terence Musho, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
  • If all data can't be removed from a device, it gets recycled through a licensed recycler to keep e-waste out of landfills.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Best Buy also has an e-waste program that allows people to either recycle or trade in their old tech products.
    — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • Environment:Your old cellphone and printer are e-waste.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Residents and businesses can drop off e-waste free of charge for recycling from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • The technology and economics just aren’t solid enough yet for wide-scale e-waste recycling.
    — Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2025
  • Vapes are perhaps the most effective single thing the e-waste and recycling industries could target.
    — Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2025

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