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Society Branches Out
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Hastings is dedicated to helping people within the community as well as the wider Bay region and they’ve just found a whole new way to do so with the organisations’s new Recycling and Refurbishing programme.
The new venture allows people to donate household items such as computers, TVs, video and DVD players, speaker cables and virtually anything else electronic - working or not. The items will then be repaired for resale. "The dream started in December 2007 and this is the result" Recycling and Refurbishing programme director Frank Newrick says. Electrical and electronic equipment is a huge part of our lives, but disposing of the equipment in a safe and friendly way, rather than merely adding dangerous materials and electrical waste into already brimming landfills.
"We will be looking for volunteers in the future to help test the equipment and assist with disassembling" programme manager Steve Connell says.
The Society’s workshop and showroom is located at 53 Tollenmache Road East, Longlands, in Hastings.
Website: http://www.svdprecycling.org.nz
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