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, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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