TechSoup's Electronics Reuse Policy

TechSoup’s policy goal is to promote electronics reuse such that a significant number of good useable IT equipment can be collected and refurbished and made available to nonprofits and others in need in all electronic recycling legislation. Electronics reuse has good local ‘green collar’ job creation potential. We advocate that six-year-old or newer IT equipment is diverted from collection streams so it can be refurbished and put back in use by schools, nonprofit charities, libraries, and low-income families – rather than all the material collected going to destruction as is the case now in nearly all electronics recycling legislation.