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

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It's been 12 years since our own Jim Lynch teamed up with Willie Cade at PC Refurbishers and Recyclers to start the very first International Computer Refurbishers Summit (ICRS). The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. Million Ton Problem. ICRS Goes to Europe.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

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But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. A recent World Economic Forum report estimates that shifting to this model could add more than $1 trillion every year to the global economy by 2025 and create 100,000 new jobs within the next five years. International.