Harvesting the valuable materials locked away in this waste stream could generate some $95 billion in reusable resources.

In the corner of my basement sits a dusty Rubbermaid bin crammed with a decade’s worth of outdated and obsolete electronics, otherwise known as e-waste. It’s a tangle of cords, cables, clickers, ...

Look, we've all got that "shelf of shame" in the closet-a graveyard of ancient laptops, tangled power bricks, and printers that haven't seen an ink cartridge since 2019. In 2026, letting this e-waste ...