Nov. 30, 2007
Get on Santa's Good Side by Recycling Your Old Electronics at Goodwill
By HNN Staff
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- If Santa leaves a new laptop, iPhone, Blackberry or a shiny new flat-screen HDTV under your tree this year, what will you do with your old electronics? If your answer is, “Bring them to Goodwill Industries,” Santa will put your name on the list of good folks for the following year, too.
Throughout its history, Goodwill has been the happy recipient of gently used clothing, toys, books, household items and small appliances. Donations to Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA, area are sold in their eight stores in the Tri-State region. Now, however, even a non-working computer or other old electronic item can be donated to be either sold or de-constructed and recycled, depending on its condition. At the camera-monitored, secure facility, trained workers sort and evaluate the donated equipment. Donors do not need to worry about leaving personal information behind, either.
Computers that meet minimum standards will be refurbished if possible -- with the hard drives wiped clean -- and then resold in a Goodwill retail store where the proceeds support Goodwill’s job training and placement programs. If it cannot be refurbished, workers will clean the computer’s hard-drive, de-manufacture the equipment, sort the component parts, and prepare them for recycling. Each donor may request a certificate verifying that the donated hard-drive has been cleaned to the Department of Defense wiping standards to remove all sensitive or personal material. We can also wipe personal information from removable media: external hard drives, USB thumb drives, memory sticks/cards, zip drives, and diskettes.
Donations of analog television sets, which will be phased out in February 2009, can still be sold and are accepted at any store or donation center. Goodwill’s Industrial Contracts Center at 525 19th Street West in Huntington accepts all non-working or outdated computers and components, printers, scanners or fax machines. Cell phones may be donated at either a store or the Contracts Center. Goodwill of KYOWVA Area, Inc. has stores in Huntington, Barboursville, Lavalette, Milton, Pt. Pleasant and Williamson, WV as well as those in Ashland and Pikeville, KY. For exact locations go to www.goodwillhunting.org and click on Shop/locations or call 304.52.7034 for the location nearest you.
For more information, contact Ms. Carter T. Seaton, Marketing Director @ 304.525.7034 or ctseaton@goodwillhunting.org
Get on Santa's Good Side by Recycling Your Old Electronics at Goodwill
By HNN Staff
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- If Santa leaves a new laptop, iPhone, Blackberry or a shiny new flat-screen HDTV under your tree this year, what will you do with your old electronics? If your answer is, “Bring them to Goodwill Industries,” Santa will put your name on the list of good folks for the following year, too.
Throughout its history, Goodwill has been the happy recipient of gently used clothing, toys, books, household items and small appliances. Donations to Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA, area are sold in their eight stores in the Tri-State region. Now, however, even a non-working computer or other old electronic item can be donated to be either sold or de-constructed and recycled, depending on its condition. At the camera-monitored, secure facility, trained workers sort and evaluate the donated equipment. Donors do not need to worry about leaving personal information behind, either.
Computers that meet minimum standards will be refurbished if possible -- with the hard drives wiped clean -- and then resold in a Goodwill retail store where the proceeds support Goodwill’s job training and placement programs. If it cannot be refurbished, workers will clean the computer’s hard-drive, de-manufacture the equipment, sort the component parts, and prepare them for recycling. Each donor may request a certificate verifying that the donated hard-drive has been cleaned to the Department of Defense wiping standards to remove all sensitive or personal material. We can also wipe personal information from removable media: external hard drives, USB thumb drives, memory sticks/cards, zip drives, and diskettes.
Donations of analog television sets, which will be phased out in February 2009, can still be sold and are accepted at any store or donation center. Goodwill’s Industrial Contracts Center at 525 19th Street West in Huntington accepts all non-working or outdated computers and components, printers, scanners or fax machines. Cell phones may be donated at either a store or the Contracts Center. Goodwill of KYOWVA Area, Inc. has stores in Huntington, Barboursville, Lavalette, Milton, Pt. Pleasant and Williamson, WV as well as those in Ashland and Pikeville, KY. For exact locations go to www.goodwillhunting.org and click on Shop/locations or call 304.52.7034 for the location nearest you.
For more information, contact Ms. Carter T. Seaton, Marketing Director @ 304.525.7034 or ctseaton@goodwillhunting.org
