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Independent Retailers – the Backbone of Business and Industry

GrantNews

This includes agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation. They buy merchandise at wholesale prices from manufacturers or distributors and sell it to consumers at retail prices. Jobs: Locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of sales and retain more employees during economic downturns.

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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

Tech Soup

In his book Natural Capitalism , Paul Hawkin finds that the amount of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. Circuit boards have one of the longest supply chains of any manufactured item. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. It also conserves materials.

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