OK, I’m an old PC hoarder. Nothing like breathing new life into old hardware by taking someone’s cast off PC/Laptop and swapping in a solid state drive or some version of Linux. But at some point it’s got to go off to it’s final destination. And what if you are a large corporation that swaps out computers by the thousands? Now I am finding out what comes next.

I recently started volunteering on a regular basis at the Shore Foundation (https://www.theshorefoundation.com/), which takes computers going out of service at corporations and refurbishes them to pass on to small non-profits in our area. Any equipment not suitable for reuse is carefully dissembled and passed on for resource extraction and recycling by local partners Sunnking and Li-Cycle.

Basically, my home hoarding behavior has been enabled on an industrial scale.

I was going for “The Thinker” pose in this shot, but it turned out more like “Please adopt our computers and give them a good home” 🙂