Read with interest Paul Gilster's column in Wednesday's N&O. The article says the Purple Elephant, a local nonprofit, will accept donated computers, refurbish them and install totally new software (after wiping clean the hard drives with software approved by the Department of Defense). Purple Elephant then makes the computers available to folks who might not otherwise be able to afford them; children, Gilster says, are the major beneficiaries.
With 150 million computers now in landfills, the environmental impact of rescuing older PCs is BIG. Using EPA figures, Purple Elephant founder Dave Hinton can show that the more than 6,000 PCs his organization has recycled or restored have produced an environmental savings in excess of $1,000,000.
You can find the Purple Elephant on the Web at www.purpleelephant.org
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