Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never, ever touch -- except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, ...

Most people don't throw away old electronics --they relocate them. The laptop goes from the desk to the closet, the closet to a storage bin, the bin to the garage, where it joins a growing collection ...

When I finally admitted my old desktop and wheezing inkjet were never coming back into regular use, I assumed getting rid of them would be expensive or a hassle. Instead, I discovered that I could ...

Instead of throwing away your old laptops, desktops and printers, do your part to ease the burden on our landfill and recycle them. There are many ways you can responsibly recycle computers and ...

Whether you repurpose it, rehome it, or recycle it, that dusty old computer in your closet may still be surprisingly valuable. Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural ...

The problem, of course, is that consumer electronics contain toxic substances such as cadmium, lead, mercury, beryllium, polyvinyl chloride, or PVC and brominated flame retardants, or BFRs, to name a ...