# Computer Aid International asks Christmas shoppers to donate old PCs

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/14/computer-aid-international-asks-christmas-shoppers-donate-old-pcs/
- Published: 2004-12-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Computer Aid International, the not-for-profit provider of professionally refurbished
PCs to developing countries, is asking Christmas shoppers to donate their old PC
equipment instead of simply disposing of it.
Computer Aid International receives
the majority of its donations from business users, yet recognises that with 60 per
cent of UK homes now having a PC, consumers can play a valuable part in its Christmas
initiative.

 

 

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The organisation has calculated that each refurbished computer provided to a school
in the developing world will be used for an average six hours a day, 250 school 
days per year, for a minimum of three years. This represents a total of 4,500 extra
productive hours from each PC.

 

 

Every year more than 125,000 tonnes of IT equipment including 1.5 million PCs are
deemed prematurely obsolete and discarded in the UK and many consumes remain unaware
of the alternative options for recycling and reuse available to them.

 

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