GreenBin 360
E-waste collection from companies and institutions across St. Louis, Missouri. This is where the devices every other programme hands out come from.
Existing e-waste solutions mostly stop at collection and recycling. They rarely touch digital poverty, youth employment, or community participation, which means the material moves but nothing else does. GreenBin 360 treats a discarded device as a community asset rather than a disposal problem.
In practice this is the operation that feeds everything else JustUsedTech runs. Companies and institutions across St. Louis, Missouri, hand over end-of-life and surplus hardware, and the programme routes it into sorting, data destruction, repair, and refurbishment. What can be brought back is brought back; what cannot is dismantled for material recovery.
Recovered devices then go out through the redistribution pillar, to schools, libraries, innovation hubs, women-led businesses, and community centres. One organisation's retired hardware becomes another person's first computer.
Why this exists
The conditions the programme was designed against.
The volume
The world generates around 60 million tonnes of e-waste a year. Nigeria alone generates over 500 thousand metric tonnes annually, while millions of young people and underserved communities remain digitally excluded.
The loss
Valuable materials worth millions are lost every year through improper disposal, informal recycling, open burning, and landfill dumping.
What the programme is for
What the programme sets out to achieve.
Collect
Community, school, corporate, municipal, and retail collection points feeding a single stream of recoverable hardware.
Recover
Sorting, repair, refurbishment, material recovery, and secure data destruction on every device that comes in.
Redistribute
Devices out to schools, libraries, innovation hubs, women-led businesses, and community centres.
Supply the programmes
Every refurbished device that reaches the Breakthrough Series or a school donation started here.
US operations to date
Totals for the collection operation since it began, rather than for one year.
90,000+ lbs
E-waste upcycled to date
60%
Devices returned to the St. Louis community
800+
Devices redistributed
How it runs
The activities that make up the programme.
Corporate and institutional collection
Scheduled pickups and drop-off events for end-of-life and surplus hardware from organisations across the region.
Assessment and data destruction
Every device is assessed on arrival and wiped before it goes any further, so nothing leaves carrying a previous owner's data.
Refurbishment
Repair, re-imaging, and quality testing, turning recoverable devices back into working computers.
Redistribution
Refurbished devices donated or sold at subsidised prices into the communities and programmes that need them.
From the field
Collection days around St. Louis, Missouri, and the storage room where donated equipment is sorted before repair.
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Who it is for
Primary
- Companies and institutions retiring hardware across St. Louis, Missouri
- Schools, libraries, and community centres receiving refurbished devices
Secondary
- Students and low-income households
- Women-led businesses and youth innovation hubs
Every programme runs on donated hardware.
If your organisation is retiring devices, that is where a programme starts.