E-Waste Is Filling Up Landfills. Here’s How to Reduce It.

Kyle Wiens tries to avoid giving gifts he can’t make himself. The chief executive officer of repair business iFixit
crafts his own Christmas ornaments, cutting boards and picture frames, and he’d take a nice bottle of whiskey any day over “some electronic gizmo that’s going to go in the drawer,” he says.

His online shop of parts, tools and free repair guides has been in the business of helping people fix electronics for the past two decades.

The world generated 62 billion kilograms (137 billion pounds) of electronic waste in 2022 and properly recycled less than a quarter ...