Canon Australia has joined the Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP) as a founding member to reaffirm its commitment to reducing e-waste.

Electronic waste is a global time bomb and regulations must be tightened to prevent toxic contamination from mobile phones, computers and other electronic goods, experts say.

Developing countries need to prepare for an avalanche of e-waste generated by PCs, consumer electronics and appliances, the United Nations said in a study released Monday.

The Environmental Protection Heritage Council’s (EPHC) national e-waste management program has been heralded the best possible solution for vendors, customers and the environment.

Vendors have thrown their support behind the Environmental Protection Heritage Council’s (EPHC) national e-waste management program but admit more details are needed to understand its full cost and business implications.

A move to introduce compulsory e-waste management programs by the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) has been embraced by the industry at large.

Sustainable IT outfit, Greenbox, has revealed a free self-assessment tool for businesses that aims to help them rate their ICT recycling programs.

Australia slips behind OECD while e-waste goes unchecked.

With most Americans switching their mobile handsets once every 18 months, the need to find safe ways to dispose of old mobile phones has only grown. ReCellular, a self-described "electronics-sustainability" firm based in the US, has spent the past two decades working with the US-based Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) to become a major recycler and reseller of mobile handsets and accessories. Every day, ReCellular processes thousands of unwanted handsets and either fixes them for resale or sends them off to be melted down and recycled. ReCellular Vice President Mike Newman spoke with Brad Reed about how his company is helping to reduce e-waste, as well as how enterprises can benefit from donating their mobile devices for reuse and recycling.

A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman.