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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

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The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. The events draw nonprofit and commercial refurbishers, environmentalists, policy makers, and green technology innovators, as well as international refurbishers who offer a global view of electronics refurbishing and recycling.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

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There are very few charities I've come across that are as wide-ranging in their tech-for-good work as our French TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage (ADB). But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. ADB now collects approximately 180,000 mobile phones per year.

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Net2Local: Year-End Revelations

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Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. In the new year we’re planning on supporting organizers in holding unconferences and workshops in Burkina Faso, Australia, Canada, Guatemala, the United Kingdom and the United States. What did we do?