Where do electronics go when they die?
First, they’re boxed up and stored in attics, garages and basements. After collecting dust, they’re thrown away or recycled. If thrown away, they end up in landfills, incinerators and oceans, where they pose a risk to the environment.
If recycled, however, they’re repurposed. Individual parts are collected and reused. Non-reusable parts are disposed of safely. And as was the case on Saturday morning at Cascadia Technical Academy, recycled electronics are used as educational tools for IT students.
On Friday and Saturday, Cascadia Tech held a community service electronics recycling event where anyone looking to recycle their old electronics was invited to drop them off at Cascadia Tech, where IT students repurposed and recycled them for free.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the event, and this was the busiest one yet, according to IT instructor Ray Nelson.
“Yesterday we had a stream of cars, and every single one of them was loaded,” he said Saturday morning. “This has been our busiest recycling event ever.”
