ClosingTheDivide Feature on the Almaden Times

CTD’s e‐waste program is based on a simple premise, “One man's trash is another man's treasure.” The organization’s research determined that the digital divide was coupled with another issue of e‐ waste. When the upper and middle class discard their working devices with every new consumer electronics release, those devices end up in landfills, destroying the environment and polluting cities. The organization collects discarded devices, refurbishes them, and then distributes them to the underprivileged. CTD picks up the devices at the time and location of the donor’s choice to incentivize donations by making them as convenient as possible.