It might be a fun and visible way to promote Linux by co-sponsoring an
event like this sometime.
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As seen in the "Drain Enterprise" on 1/4/01:
"Recycle your old computer!" collection event January 13th
A computer recycling event will be held Saturday, January 13th from
10:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, 111 General Avenue in
Roseburg. Any unwanted computers, work-ing or not, keyboards, mice,
monitors, printers and other peripherals will be accepted from the general
public at the one-day collec-tion event. Businesses can bring their unwanted
computer equipment to this same location on Friday January 12th. Please call
440-4350 for more details.
This event is being sponsored by Douglas High School StRUT (Students
Recycling Used Technology), Douglas County Waste Reduction, and the Oregon
Army National Guard. Reusable computer components will be refurbished by
Douglas High School students and given to qualified recipients. All
nonreusable components will be sent to the state StRUT headquarters and
recycled.
Oregon is one of eight states participating in StRUT, helping educate
students in the used of technology and recycling through hands-on experience
in building and repairing donated equipment. Douglas High School joined the
program in 1999. According to Candy Robinson, Career Center and StRUT
Coordinator, "the second year of the program is drawing quite an
enthusiastic group of students." Many of the students will be working at the
events collecting, evaluating, and packing computers for transport. In
addition, they plan to host a computer "boneyard" corner at the public event
where visitors can disassemble non-reusable computers to see the inner workings
With the number of obsolete computers increasing each year, estimated at 500
million by 2007, the hazardous materials contained in the equipment pose
significant disposal problems. For example, each monitor contains 3 to 8
pounds of lead. Therefore, keeping this equipment out of the land-fill and
put back into use or recycled yields many long-range benefits.
