Your old smartphone can be recycled or traded in for extra cash. Yet, 29% of Americans are stashing devices at home, while ...

About half the states in the country, including New York, have laws against throwing electronics in the trash. When old e-waste ends up in landfills, it releases toxins like lead, cadmium, mercury and ...

The smartphone may prove to be the most enduring symbol of modern human invention. The microcomputers are now portals to ...

Stop hoarding dead technology. These stores will take your old gadgets off your hands for free. If you have a growing graveyard of old printers and laptops in your closet, you're not alone. A recent ...

You probably have one or two (or three) old laptops, desktops or printers sitting around, taking up space in your home. While they mostly hide forgotten in your junk room, closet or office, spring ...

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, ...

Well, it’s a sad day in the Aamoth household: I’m thinking of getting rid of the 15-year-old Asus netbook that’s been collecting dust in the corner of my office. It’s sitting atop the Vizio laptop I ...

Christmas is over, but the remnants – stacks of cardboard boxes, bags of sparkly wrapping paper and maybe one or two broken ornaments – remain. Though it's easy to toss these items into the garbage, ...

The average household has several old gadgets lying around the house unused but many people don't know how to dispose of them ...