At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...

Beats smashing them up with a big hammer, though it's not quite as therapeutic. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

You might not think about it often, but a lot of raw materials like aluminum and plastic go into making the laptop or the desktop that is currently sitting on your desk. For those materials to ...

GREENSBORO, NC -- The FREE 2WTK Ecycling Event is Wednesday, November 12th from 4-7pm at the Piedmont Triad Farmer's Market. During the 2013 event 27,000 lbs of computers were recycled! Synergy will ...

We are talking about taking out the hard drive. On a CPU, you will have to take about a few screws to remove the outer metal shell and then find the hard drive. The hard drive pulls right out and now ...

AURORA, Mo. (KY3) - The City of Aurora held an electronic recycling drive on Saturday. The Computer Recycling Center was at City Hall collecting used TVs, computers, phones, and more. Electronics can ...

Electronic waste that weighed the equivalent of five family cars has been salvaged and shipped from Bermuda to be recycled in the US. And that was only the most recent shipment made by Guardian, a ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 ...