The Edinburgh Remakery restores used laptops and pill gadgets to allow them to be reused
Hyperlink Group has donated 80 used laptops and tablets to award-winning environmental social enterprise The Edinburgh Remakery.
All of the gadgets had been beforehand utilized in Hyperlink’s Machine Mortgage Scheme or in different digital inclusion tasks.
Andy Jack, Hyperlink’s sustainability supervisor, stated: “We’re delighted to help The Edinburgh Remakery in taking a step to enhance sustainability by means of offering gadgets beforehand utilized by Hyperlink workers.
“The Edinburgh Remakery will refurbish the laptops and tablets to allow them to proceed for use by clients, which not solely helps the atmosphere however assists with preserving everybody related.”
Elaine Brown, CEO, of The Edinburgh Remakery, added: “We’re so grateful to Hyperlink for his or her beneficiant donation of 80 gadgets. We’re delighted to see extra companies throughout Scotland introducing sustainable practices to cut back their environmental influence, and Hyperlink is main by instance by utilizing our free Tech Disposal Service for Enterprise and donating their outdated digital gadgets to be refurbished and responsibly recycled quite than thrown away and wasted.”
Graeme Bruce, Hyperlink’s head of sustainability and asset administration, added: “Hyperlink is dedicated to reaching Web Zero carbon emissions by 2030. We additionally help the round economic system to cut back landfill and the reliance on uncommon earth metals. This donation ties in with our Sustainability Technique, which goals to help us in assembly our environmental obligations and play our half within the ongoing local weather emergency.”
