E-waste is a big problem, but there is also a counter-trend that helps fight it.

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Fewer solar panel manufactures are willing to share information about their manufacturing practices, and that can't be good news.

Critics have been quick to say that Phonebloks isn't realistic with the current market. What they are missing is that this is the entire point of the project. Phonebloks aims to alter the present, but re-imagining the future.

The disks are coated with zinc oxide nanorods that break apart organic molecules in sewage.

Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.

Kodjo Afate Gnikou is a 33 years old inventor from Togo, in West Africa. Using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard, he built a functioning 3D printer that he calls W.AFATE.

Chances are, your holiday gifts may include an electronic gadget or two, and a new initiative aims to encourage and support the proper disposal and recycling of the old ones.

By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33% to 65.4 million tons per year—the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.

Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.

The smartphone market isn't slowing down any time soon, but many people are returning to simpler, older phone models for a host of reasons.

There's a lot to look forward to, but what should we expect to see more of in the short-term?

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Starting in 2015, it will be illegal to leave computers and other electronic for curb-side pickup, as part of an effort to fight e-waste.

Here are some staggering numbers of what could be saved.

Donating your old cell phones to these causes will keep them out of landfills and help others too.

Looking beyond traditional recyclables and the "blue bin", here are some of the organizations and companies seeking to redefine what we consider trash with alternative recycling initiatives and methods of reuse.

The innovation could mean less e-waste at the end of our electronics' lives.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

As Asian countries buy more electronics, the piles of discarded devices are increasing and it's putting people in danger.

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

From 50 million tons of e-waste generated annually to 350,000 cell phones thrown away every day, the numbers behind our digital addiction are staggering.

Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.

And the Oatmeal says " I'm ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots."

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

The Street View cameras now take you on extreme vertical tours alongside famous climbers.

It's cheap, it works and Oh, the places you'll go.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.

The optical display device that is often the subject of ridicule has proven itself to be a very valuable asset to surgeons.

Conservation organizations used Google Street View cameras to document the places, animals and people most vulnerable to climate change.

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.

I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.

The app lets kids and adults alike explore, measure and test the world around them.

Want to know if you can go solar? Now there's a good chance you can easily find out.

But is it truly modular?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.

The tech giant has hit this major renewable energy goal ahead of all its competitors.

A fleet of the cars mapped methane leaks in three major cities and the results aren't good.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.