International e-waste Day stories

Research by Sircel reveals just 19% of top Australian firms report e-waste in sustainability reports, despite it being the world's fastest-growing waste stream.

When considering sustainable IT solutions, we’ve broken down the six steps of transformative actions that could help your organisation reach its goals.

Dell Technologies tackles e-waste with Concept Luna, championing sustainable, recyclable technology design.

Broken screens and other minor defects can now be rectified nationwide by repair technicians based in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

In 2023, the Recycle A Device (RAD) project achieved remarkable milestones, including donating 2,374 laptops and winning notable accolades.

Vodafone urges Aussies to recycle old mobiles this holiday, revealing 22.3 million devices lay redundant across the nation.

Sustainable tech start-up Reboxed has bagged £1.6m to boost its eco-friendly marketplace, aspiring to rehome 100 million devices by 2030.

Data centres could account for a fifth of the world's power consumption by 2025, underlining a pressing need for sector sustainability, says Wisetek.

The Quadrent Green Lease programme champions digital inclusion and e-waste reduction in New Zealand's underprivileged communities.

Seagate Technology unveils Exos CORVAULT 4U106, a multi-petabyte block storage system with a massive 2.5PB capacity.

Schneider Electric updates sustainability metrics-reporting system aimed at improving environmental benchmarks for data centres.

Blancco's software prevented 107m KG of IT devices from becoming e-waste, erasing data from 63.8 million devices in the past year.

Hyderabad's young prodigies, Diya Loka and Sahithi Radha, have won international recognition for their e-waste initiative, E-Cycl.

Samsung Electronics New Zealand is hosting free electronic collection events on International E-Waste Day to tackle the growing issue of e-waste.

The project aims to save companies money and give unwanted IT equipment such as laptops, PCs, phones and tablets a new lease of life.

BOM IT Solutions has partnered with the electronic waste company, Byteback, to help the IT sector reduce its electronic waste and cut its carbon footprint.

The planet desperately needs more people to act sustainably, but that burden of responsibility shouldn't fall squarely on women's shoulders.

CIOs have an opportunity to take a comprehensive look into the health of their IT infrastructure, and in particular, end-user experience.

A Sydney business is helping residents gift gadgets in a guilt-free and sustainable way as the holiday season approaches.

Arnies Recon has saved over 4.5 thousand tonnes of appliances and electronics from landfill in the last three years.