How to Use e-waste in a Sentence

e-waste

noun

• 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
• 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 cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Businesses with a large quantity of e-waste can schedule a free pickup.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Critics say this hurts the secondhand market, which benefits consumers and helps the smart, pricey devices avoid becoming e-waste.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
• Recycle it either through Apple or a reputable e-waste service.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
• In all, people across the world throw out roughly 9 billion kilograms (19.8 billion pounds) of e-waste commonly not recognized as such by consumers.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• Digiconomist has estimated that a single bitcoin transaction may generate more e-waste than two iPhones (but less than an iPad).
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• The team is exploring ways to recover other valuable materials such as copper and aluminum from e-waste.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
• Europe, for example, has fairly high formal e-waste recycling rates, at about 43 percent.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
• Some of what most consumers consider to be e-waste—like electronics such as computers, smartphones, TVs, and speaker systems—are usual suspects.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• That is intercepting and recycling the most harmful materials on the planet — plastic waste, e-waste, and carbon dioxide.
  — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2024
• As well as being an environmental problem, e-waste is also a climate problem.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Campus donation sites are set up for clothing, textiles and e-waste, according to a university statement.
  — Sonja Stott, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Ditching the batteries in small devices could also reduce lithium demand and problematic e-waste.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
• Climate experts also suggest the environmental effects of e-waste are being downplayed, and question the quality of the credits themselves.
  — Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• For cheap-to-manufacture products like smartphones, researchers say corporations will simply drop prices, leading consumers to purchase new models and turn their old ones into e-waste.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• The metals present in e-waste aren’t necessarily useful for every climate tech application even when they are recycled.
  — Maddie Stone / Grist, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
• Data centers contribute to the 50 million tons of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) produced worldwide every year, but only 20% is recycled.
  — Sviat Dulianinov, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025