Scotland / Donation / Environment

01 January 2024 - Ongoing

The waste hierarchy shows that re-use should be considered prior to recycling and certainly before recovery of the raw components of a product. Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioning Systems Europe (M-ACE in short) has formed a partnership with a local IT infrastructure recycling company recycle our end-of-life IT equipment.

M-ACE previously scrapped the hard drives, now we have stopped sending scrap IT equipment to WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) recycling. Our alliance with the local IT infrastructure recycling company will re-use/re-purpose the equipment.

Ensuring compliance with GDPR and factory security processes, the company, "ReusingIT," allows us to move up the waste hierarchy, giving our equipment a new lease of life to local charities and underprivileged families in deprived/war-torn areas of both Europe and Africa. This enhances people access to connectivity and computer systems to allow improvements in their lives.

In 1999, Ross Cockburn an IT professional had computers which were no longer needed. Linking with Computers for Africa (a school-based project in the Scottish Highlands) he went on to supply them with equipment. Visiting Kenya as part of this link, Ross recognised the need for computers in Africa and the enormous value which they could bring to people there. ReusingIT was then founded in 2007 with an aim to provide underprivileged children the same opportunities to learn as the rest of society, with over 3,000 PCs supplied to over 10 countries.

For more details about this activity, please visit the website below.
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