How to Use e-waste in a Sentence

e-waste

noun

• Never put e-waste in the trash.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
• If not, recycle them as e-waste.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2026
• So how can more e-waste be brought into the reverse supply chain?
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• Brown himself buys devices off eBay or pulls them from e-waste bins.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
• Refunds or not, there will still be many useless hunks of e-waste left behind.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 May 2024
• Abubakar handles all manner of e-waste, but the phones are his specialty.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 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
• Not only is e-waste a huge problem but tossing batteries can cause fires.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 June 2024
• Only 25% of this e-waste is recycled.
  — Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Fortune, 25 May 2026
• That can cause fires, and further contribute to the growing e-waste problem.
  — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2024
• Less than a quarter of e-waste was recycled in 2022.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Dec. 2025
• That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
• The technique could go a long way towards helping tackle the growing problem of e-waste.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
• Less than 1% of rare earth metals found in e-waste are currently recycled.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
• Take them along with your old computer monitors to an e-waste site for recycling.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
• Businesses with a large quantity of e-waste can schedule a free pickup.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
• Furthermore, this number is rising five times as fast as e-waste recycling.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2025
• The $53 for this new fee is going for many new employees to do such things as picking up bulky items and e-waste.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
• The world generates millions of tons of electronic waste — also called e-waste — each year.
  — ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
• At the same time, drop off electronics for proper recycling at the free e-waste collection event.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
• If artificial trees have lights that are not removable, they must be recycled with e-waste.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
• There would also be less e-waste if consumers had a smoother process to repair broken tech, the advocacy groups say.
  — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 30 July 2026
• Recycle it either through Apple or a reputable e-waste service.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
• Fast, cheap gold recycling Electronic waste, or e-waste, is one of the fastest growing solid waste streams in the world.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
• Through the product, the company wants to help reduce e-waste, which can often accumulate at schools.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
• There is an e-waste recycling bin in all areas of Maricopa County.
  — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• The technology and economics just aren’t solid enough yet for wide-scale e-waste recycling.
  — Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2025
• Get rid of old, broken, and unused devices—even Lightning cables—without adding to the e-waste problem.
  — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• These updates are the types of things that can help devices retain or improve their value, last longer, and become less likely to turn into e-waste.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025