Although our school EWaste bins do a great job of being a central hub for electronic waste to be reused and recycled, unfortunately, a lot of people throw away phones into ewaste bins when they're still in working condition.
Sadly, some of these items do get sent to the prcoessing facility and can't be donated, the bins are currently just too big for our student groups to frequently go through and test.
In the meantime, the service office has set up a donation box to collect old phones to be reused by migrant workers in Singapore. Not only is this a great system to give back to our community and redistrubte items to people who can beenfit from it, especially now taht everything is organised online. This project is also a great sustinability intiative in the way that it closes the gap on harmful effects of the capitalist mindset we have, over buying and throwing away instead of reuseing what we have. It's more sustainable to use products until we can't anymore, than throwing them away and getting the newest iPhone every other year.
Please donate your working electronic products instead of throwing them away, or even better, sell them on platforms such as carousel, depop or Facebook Marketplace.
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