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Who benefits
from recycling?: As
well as helping small charities and supporting good
causes like the Special Care Baby Unit at the Royal
Shrewsbury Hospital or the Shropshire Dyslexic Society you could be helping good causes in the UK
like families on lower incomes that are in desperate need of
computer equipment so the children can complete home work.
Often these people are refused help by charities that will
opt for the exporting equipment out of the UK to developing
countries like Asia and Africa where the computers can not
be traced and can be sold at market to the highest bidder.
What happens
to your computer equipment:
The WEEE directive states that where ever possible waste
computer equipment must be reused.
So after we carry out data destruction to the highest of
standards and fulfilled all obligations under the WEEE
directive in the disposal of computer equipment we then work
with many charities and organisations who provide
impoverished people with equipment they would normally be
unable to afford.
Who
receives equipment? We donate equipment to people
who really need it and in many cases have been refused help
elsewhere.
These might include small charities, families on low income,
self support groups, the unemployed and even small business
start-ups that we consider would benefit the community.
As a Microsoft Authorised
Refurbisher: We are able to donate fully
operational computers that have been installed with Windows
XP totally free of charge.
Recent charities we have helped include the Royal British
Legion, Re-Entry, the Shropshire Dyslexia Association,
Shrewsbury Hospitals Special Care Baby unit.
Individuals include the long term unemployed and unemployed
people in rural areas who can not travel into towns to look
in the job centre any many other worthy causes.
We have a vetting procedure in place and will not supply
equipment to 'free loaders'.
Full audit trail: We
keep track of every computer we pass on or donate.
The picture below to the left shows a class room of children
in South Africa using computers previously used in a school
in Staffordshire.
The picture below on the right shows children using
computers at the Nailer Cub Scout camp. Some of these
children had never been away from home before and these
computers provided a valuable link back home to some home
sick cub scouts.
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