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

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The organization's Clic Vert program is a French West African digital inclusion project that supplies refurbished phones and PCs to people who need them and also develops recycling capacity in the region. spanhidden. greentech electronics waste mobile phone Recycled and Refurbished Computers mobile phones event'

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

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Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. To date, the project has collected and recycled over half a million phones.