Enter Message / description of files attached:DID YOU KNOW?

By Matthew Della Valle

Did you know that computer parts and products are becoming a real problem for municipalities without the infastructure designed to stem the flow or halt e-toxics from entering our landfills and our environment? Computer circuit boards and batteries contain heavy metals like lead and cadmium, cathode ray tube monitors or CRTs have lead-oxide and barium. Brominated flame-retardents are used in printed circuit boards, cables and plastic casing. PVC or Poly Vinyl Chloride coated copper cables and plastic casings release highly toxic dioxins and furans when burnt to salvage the valuable metals such as the copper.

Computers and flat screen monitors contain mercury switches, computers with older capacitors and transformers contain PCB’s. Landfills, as we have come to know, leak these toxic chemicals. Burying it is not solution. The attitude “out of site, out of mind” simply will not suffice in our book; this might work for some but not for this organization. We take great pride in our beautiful province nation and this planet and we, as a whole, believe we have found a solution: To refurbish, repair and distribute computers to low income families who have school age children and who do not have the means nor the financial ability to buy a computer.