Here’s what do you do with a computer when you’re ready for it to head to another owner or to the electronics recycler.

WD Touts New Hard Drive Recycling Process As 'Blueprint' for Domestic Reuse Mining old hard drives for rare earth elements could facilitate 'large-scale, domestic recycling,' and ease US reliance on ...

Traditional hard drives typically contain useful components. But dismantling them manually would be too labor-intensive. As things stand, old hard drives tend to go through a shredder and it's often ...

Garner Products, Roseville, California, has announced that its DiskMantler has won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement (E-SCRAP) Prize for its approach to hard ...

Western Digital says it's created an initiative to retrieve rare earth metals from hard drives that are being cycled out of data centers. The tech company, best known for its digital storage products, ...

The company says it is closer to recovering magnet materials from up to 60,000 hard drives per week at its plant in Williston, South Carolina. “We’re expanding our ability to recover critical ...

This week my question comes from my own family. I had a text exchange with my brother-in-law who wrote, “We have at least one ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Western Digital has developed a way to mine old ...