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Employees of the Redux Recycling GmbH company sort batteries. (Carmen Jaspersen/picture alliance via Getty Images)

UN warns of silicon mountain of e-waste

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2017. (Getty/Jim Watson)

Trump falls behind China in tech war

Dilip Hiro - TomDispatch.com
A picture taken in the plant of GDE recycling company (Guy Dauphin Environnement) in Rocquancourt, northwestern France on October 11, 2016 shows recyclable waste. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images) (Afp/getty Images)

Here's how we can curb e-waste

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute

A cable that is extraordinarily flexible

Salon Marketplace
The Nike Power Speed tights, center, are displayed during a news conference, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (AP)

"Smart" fabrics, embroidered electronics

Asimina Kiourti - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-311293p1.html'>Kamenetskiy Konstantin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

An economist explains travel insurance

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation
(Getty/fstop123)

Earbuds took over our kids' lives

Nicole A. Roach - Common Sense Media
In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 photo, a customer browses through used items at a flea market on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The waste from discarded electronic gadgets and electrical appliances has increased by two-thirds in East Asia over five years, posing a growing threat to health and the environment unless proper disposal becomes the norm. The United Nations University says China is the biggest culprit with its electronic waste more than doubling. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (AP)

Mountain of smartphones kills

Stephen Wright
(Huguette Roe/Shutterstock)

Electronics' toxic legacy

Lindsay Abrams
(HBO)

John Oliver on Radio Shack

Sarah Gray
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Lindsay Abrams
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Associated Press

Dan Nosowitz - Popular Science
The BirkSun, shown in Levels Teal, has a built-in solar panel and rechargeable battery (BirkSun/Instagram)

Lindsay Abrams
(Shutterstock)

Natasha Lennard
(Uros Zunic/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
In this photo taken on May 22, 2010, visitors to a job fair walk past the Foxconn recruitment area in Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong province. (AP)

Apple and Foxconn to break up?

Sophie Song - IBTimes

Roland Chambers - The Browser
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