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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Another UN study finds that domestic consumption is the main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste problem.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

32 Scholz and associates use the term to describe the rapid growth of worldwide efforts to establish worker-owned platform cooperatives that are directly owned and managed by workers themselves and that use websites and mobile apps to sell goods or services. 9</sup). 46 And The Drivers Cooperative in New York raised over $1.6

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