This story has been updated with statements from Microsoft and additional information about how refurbishers obtain restore disks. A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling ...

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com and disk trader, shows off a 3.5-inch computer disk at his warehouse in Lake Forest. REUTERS/Alan Devall It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk ...

Eric Lundgren is obsessed with recycling electronics. He built an electric car out of recycled parts that far outdistanced a Tesla in a test. He launched what he thinks is the first “electronic hybrid ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

Congratulations, you’ve made great strides in improving the data security in your company. You’ve convinced your employees to a) not take candy from strangers in e-mail, b) not to leave personally ...

LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Demand for ruthenium is expected to fall this year because of high prices and greater use of recycled material in the electronics industry, Johnson Matthey said in a report ...

MONTANA CITY — The crunch of a shredding hard drive filled a warehouse as an old computer tower completed another step on its journey from gathering dust on a garage shelf to becoming components for a ...