Tech Soup
OCTOBER 26, 2014
Jim Lynch is TechSoup's director of green technology (here's the part where I embarrass him — he's also pretty much the man as far as electronics refurbishing and recycling goes). The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. spanhidden. spanhidden.
Tech Soup
JANUARY 27, 2015
But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. ADB also collects and sorts office waste, including ink cartridges and PCs, as well as mobile phones for recycling or reuse in its thrift stores. ADB now collects approximately 180,000 mobile phones per year.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
APRIL 26, 2007
Technology Review published a survey of the role of mobile technology in the developing economies this past January. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China.
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