The annual TREPA Freecycle at Beacon Hall happened April 12, and we certainly hope to repeat the project next year. Besides keeping usable electronic equipment out of dumpsites, it saves manufacturing energy and gets good equipment into the hands of people who need it, at no cost.
This year, for the first time, we had no old computer monitors.
I want to share a couple thoughts with the participating public:
(1) If you have something to donate, please bring it in before 10:00 A.M. If you bring it near closing time, chances are that nobody will pick it up, and it may, unfortunately, end up in recycling. I try to rescue the best residual bits for next year’s event, but sometimes, there is more than I can store!
(2) We would appreciate it if donors could keep the various parts of your unit (for instance, electrical connections, discs, and main unit) together, so that the recipient can receive a working piece of equipment, rather than pieces of one. If you get pieces and not the whole assembly, guess what: The pieces won’t work!
(3) If you have picked up something you cannot use and it may be in working order bring it back next year, rather than throwing it out.
Many thanks to Mil Nickerson, Carol and Gerald Jacquard, Roy Fudge, Virginia Smith, and Barrie MacGregor their help!
One final appeal to the donating public: If you replace electronic equipment during the year, and your old stuff is in working condition, don’t throw it out! If the Salvation Army or another charitable group doesn’t want it, we do.
Clinets collecting goods, under Carol’s guidance