Compucon encourages corporate customers to donate their used computer equipment to schools particularly those not properly funded for Information & Communication Technology infrastructure and teaching curriculum. Some schools are renting computer equipment that may be in their 4th, 5th or older years for a substantial amount. While the renting is a legal business transaction, some schools have been paying a lot more than they need to. Older computing equipment serves another use- training tools for our younger generation. A book has written that Michael Dell was impressed by what he saw of the inside of a PC in 1984 and the incidence inspired him to become a top business man out-selling other PC makers.

Compucon is happy to facilitate the donation and allocation process, and to arrange votes of public thanks to the donors in conjunction with the beneficiaries.

We are looking at a “disposal program” by which non working computing equipment can be disposed of in the most safe and economic manner.

Update 21 November 2008
Computerworld New Zealand has reported that Australia has launched its FIRST automated recycling plant for e-waste which will salvage up to 20,000 tonnes of IT equipment from landfill.  The Sims recycling plant, opened Wednesday in Sydney, will reduce monitors and circuit boards into basic components such aluminium, copper, silver and gold to be shipped to overseas sites for further processing.  We have the impression that New Zealand does not have this type of recycling plant yet at this stage.