Earth Day Computer Collection

Don’t recycle your old computer! Take it to the west parking lot at Shoreline CommunityCollege from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 22, 2011.

Community members are invited to support Earth Day with students, faculty and the staff of Shoreline Community College by participating in a computer recycling event at the campus west parking lot on Friday, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Your donation will help humanitarian organizations worldwide achieve their charitable missions by providing them with high-quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers.

The event is jointly sponsored by the WPDSS Student Club, Center for Service-Learning, GAC, and InterConnection (Seattle NGO). Since 1999, InterConnection has shipped tens of thousands of computers to organizations in 38 countries, and in theprocess has provided workforce development training to more than 3,500 individuals in the Seattle area, teaching them valuable computer hardware repair and upgrade skills.

For more information about Shoreline Community College’s Earth Day events (throughout the month of April), please visit http://oscar.ctc.edu/OnCampus/blog/default.aspx?id=224&t=Earth-Day-2011-at-SCC.

For more information about Interconnection, http://www.interconnection.org/.