Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. In alignment with the organization's Emmaus Social Movement roots, ADB started as and remains a major employer of chronically unemployed and disabled people. ADB now collects approximately 180,000 mobile phones per year.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The European Union (EU) is the largest economy in the world and home to over 500 million people who discard vast numbers of electronic devices each year. The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. Million Ton Problem. In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 and Canada.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Technology Review published a survey of the role of mobile technology in the developing economies this past January. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China.

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