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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Japan has a structured system based on their Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and their Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities. 9</sup). Both the national government and Seoul Metropolitan Government have passed rules guiding “Public Procurement for Realization of Social Values.”

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

We can break down American values into subatomic particles: communitarian (believe in power of community) versus individualist (believe in power of individual) egalitarian (believe in equality) versus hierarchists (embrace hieracrchy, top-down structure) Millennials are communitarian and egalitarian.

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