Recycle computers

• Jun. 3 by Kirsty Booth (3)

Recycle your old computer and help local West Midland projects and underdeveloped countries.

As part of an eco-friendly future Service Birmingham are reconditioning old computers no longer needed by their original owners and selling them to low income families at a bargain prices, as low as £40 in some cases.

 

The recycling campaign has been designed to encourage recycling and cutting back on the large amount of carbon emissions that go into making brand new computers, it is also helping underprivileged families to get to grips with technology and learn new skills.

 

For many families this will mean not going without because of budgeting and a low income. It is an educational tool for children as well as an increasing communication tool for all ages.

 

In other cases, recycling computers is aimed at developing the technology, culture and economy of underdeveloped countries. Computer Aid is a non-profit organisation that refurbishes used computers for underdeveloped countries. They use the computers for health and education purposes and are the biggest organisation of this kind, working with over 100 underdeveloped countries.

 

Computer Aid will also accept old mobile phones and print cartridges as part of their recycling scheme.  

 

If you have an old computer that is sat in your spare room collecting dust then it could be put to very worthwhile use either locally or abroad. Computer Aid  is a very worthy cause and is always in need of more equipment, a place to research and start thinking about this idea if nothing else.

 

Computer Aid accepts any working Pentium 4 computers and laptops, as well as 15″ and 17″ monitors manufactured after the year 2002. They also make use of spare parts such as laptop power adaptors, power cables, keyboards and mice.