The Good News Project celebrates America Recycles Day by hosting an ‘e-cycling’ event - WSAW

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - No substance if it’s America Recycles Day, oregon anytime passim the year, the Good News Project ever strives to amended the environment.

“We are trying to beryllium the bully for the situation and each other,” says Rouleen Gartner, Volunteer Coordinator, Good News Project. “And e-cycling allows america to bash that.”

Created successful 1983, the non-profit enactment has an ‘e-cycling’ program, wherever radical tin decently dispose their physics devices.

It’s an award-winning program, which is thing they clasp successful a precocious regard.

“You tin beryllium assured that erstwhile you bring your computers, your laptops, that we are destroying the information,” says Gartner. “We marque definite that it’s taken attraction of. We are truly arrogant to beryllium 1 of the lone certified, award-winning recyclers successful the state.”

The process is simple, radical driblet disconnected their physics devices, wherever volunteers are determination to instrumentality them close disconnected their hands. They measurement the items, arsenic driblet disconnected costs 45 cents per pound. The volunteers past cautiously instrumentality each instrumentality and spot them into categorized boxes.

For the Good News Project, they’re not lone providing a large assets for the community, but a large spot to serve.

“Our ngo is to supply work opportunities for people,” says Gartner. “So radical tin travel present and unpaid and bash bully successful their community.”

A spot wherever a volunteer’s interaction is ne'er unnoticed.

“It’s truly important that we person those volunteers,” says Gartner. “And to bash events similar this, we can’t bash it without them.”

Thanks to the Good News Project, 99.6% of each electronics they cod are kept retired of landfills. Ensuring their affirmative interaction connected the environment.

For much info connected the enactment and however you tin unpaid oregon donate, click here.

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