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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

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He subsequently worked as an ecotourism developer in Costa Rica. He saw firsthand the benefits that access to technology, especially computers and the Internet, have for remote organizations with limited resources. Image: Frank Babbitt. He founded InterConnection in Seattle in 1999. spanhidden.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. It now has a quarter billion Internet users and 450 million mobile phone users. At 16 percent growth, it is the fastest growing region in the world in adding Internet users. Latin America.