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Students can now donate old computer parts to Goodwill

Do you have an old, used or broken computer just lying around? There’s a new way to get rid of it.

Bowling Green’s Goodwill at 1058 N. Main St. will now accept hard drives, monitors and keyboards as part of a new program.

The project, called Reconnect, is an alliance between Goodwill Industries and Dell Incorporations.

Donations are free, tax-deductible and allow unwanted electronics to be reused.

Proceeds, which are based on the sales of the donated computers, will help provide support to Goodwill and further its mission of helping people with “barriers to employment,” according to the project’s Web site.

Reconnect doesn’t only benefit Goodwill, it also benefits the Bowling Green community, said Bowling Green Goodwill Manager Rachel Dove.

“It creates jobs through workforce development, which ultimately is the mission at Goodwill, since we are nonprofit,” she said. “It holds wide interest in the community because then we don’t have to pay for technological waste dumping, which can get costly.”

Consumers can donate entire computers or single parts, such as monitors or keyboards, and they don’t have to be functional. The only parts Goodwill won’t accept are cracked monitors.

Once they’re donated, the computer parts are shipped to Texas, where they are demanufactured and refurbished at the Goodwill Computer Works retail store. Any parts that are unable to be refurbished are recycled in an “environmentally friendly way,” according to the Reconnect partnership Web site.

Assistant Bowling Green Goodwill Manager Peggy Schroeder has been working at Goodwill for only a week, but supports the program because of its ability to fit in with the “fun and friendly environment” of Goodwill, she said.

The Bowling Green location has already been participating in the program for a couple of weeks, and people have begun to donate computers.

“I had considered just throwing out my computer because it busted a couple months ago, but I really didn’t want it to go to waste,” junior Matt Arvan said. “Then I heard that Goodwill was accepting computer donations, and I figured that was the best way to go because it would help out the environment and not go to waste.”

People donating computers are responsible for removing any data on their hard drive. The companies are not responsible for any information that is left on donated hardware.

For more information about donating, call 419-354-9726. The donation center is open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

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