Triangle Ecycling Has Kept 100 Tons of Toxic Ewaste Out of Durham’s Landfill Year-to-Date.
Imagine a convoy of 14 trailer trucks packed full of old computers, printers, monitors, batteries and other discarded electronics pulling up to the dump and dropping it into a big hole to leach toxins into the earth for the next 1,000 years. One Durham small business/nonprofit has prevented that from happening, this year alone.
Triangle Ecycling, announced today that it has recycled the benchmark weight of 100 tons of toxic ewaste since January 2021. Now in its 11th year of serving the Triangle Community, the grand total is many times that.
Larry Herst, Founder/CEO said, “We are grateful to be able to support the businesses, schools and organizations from downtown Durham, Raleigh, RTP and beyond that use our recycling services. These clients and our individual community customers using our free drop-off help us to make a positive environmental impact.”
“And that number doesn’t include the more than 1,000 computers we have refurbished this year and donated to local nonprofits and students or sold to support our educational program. We even pull old processors from desktops before recycling to remarket and play a small role in reducing the chip shortage that has disrupted the global supply chain,” added Herst.
Triangle Ecycling is a triple bottom line business that gives 10% of its profits to the Durham Public Schools Foundation in support of Digital Equity. It works closely with the CTE Division of DPS and Durham Tech through its semester-long internship program which has graduated over 140 students. In the past month it has established a computer lab for the Thresholds nonprofit, donated laptops for the DPS Student of the Month and provided computers to mothers graduating from the Families Moving Forward residency program.
Triangle Ecycling is self-sustaining but this year it established Ecycling4Good, to raise funds for a coalition of environmentally-oriented Durham nonprofits empowering community members to support their work during this difficult pandemic year.