The world’s e-waste (electronic waste) problem is rapidly getting out of control, as the equivalent of almost 4,500 Eiffel towers was generated in 2016 alone from discarded phones, laptops, refrigerators, TVs, and so on. That’s 44.7 million metric tonnes of potentially hazardous rubbish which could have very easily been recycled.

As Amazon points out on a new website dedicated to an environmentally friendly initiative called Second Chance, “almost 100% of e-waste is recyclable.” To help you do the right thing and stop this totally manageable plague, the e-commerce giant is launching a “one-stop ...