To address this issue, the Fund has invested in the development of the region's first center for recycling and disposal of computer equipment, established by a nonprofit organization known as Per Scholas . Located in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, Per Scholas trains and employs local residents in computer repair and assembly. Their new recycling center contracts with companies like JP Morgan Chase, Fleet Bank and Con Edison to take all their obsolete computer equipment. Modern equipment is rebuilt and sold at cost to schools, low income housing projects and nonprofit organizations.
Obsolete equipment is broken down and disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner.
The recycling line has the capacity to process 1 million monitors, CPUs and printers per year.