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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs. By comparison, business was trusted in 15 countries and distrusted in two. In China, however, the level of trust in NGOs fell significantly from the previous year.

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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

Tech Soup

Metals are the most readily sought after material to recycle, due to their high commodity value, while the recycling of plastics remains stunted by comparison due to poor labeling, its multiple varieties, the current cheap cost of virgin plastic, and the relative difficulty in finding manufacturing uses for post-consumer plastic.