Page 19 - Oundle Life April 2023

The items were collected at the main Amnesty event, held in The Hub at Fletton House on 21st January, when over 150 donations were made, and through smaller collections at Oundle School and Oundle’s volunteer-led Repair Café. The amnestied items were sorted by type and taken to E-Waste Recycle’s premises to be cleaned of
programmes they use to erase the data from the collected IT items. They do
a much ‘deeper’ clean than if you do
a factory reset or delete the files from your IT and is the real value of their service. They were very kind to partner with us.”
Ensuring that IT is safely refurbished or recycled is a good way minimise
its ‘end-of-life’ impact, but there are also some easy ways to reduce its impact while it is in use. These are just some of the simple actions we can take to reduce our digital footprints:
• Regularly clearing unwanted emails, files, and photos from devices
• Reducing the number of photos or large files sent by email or social media
• Calling by phone rather than video
IT AMNESTY
Oundle Waste Less
Over a tonne of unused IT equipment collected through the Oundle IT Amnesty
Oundle’s first IT Amnesty, initiated
by local teenagers Ned Sherwin and Joseph Dainter and supported by the Oundle Waste Less project, collected over 1 tonne of old
and unused mobile phones, laptops, tablets, desktops, cables, gaming equipment and
Wi-Fi routers. The boys and the partnering organisation, E-Waste Recycle, were overwhelmed by the response from the Oundle community; it was much more popular than they had ever imagined it might be.
Edinburgh’s Award, but we had no idea how much stuff people might bring,” Said Joseph, “Most people brought in four or five items which they had been storing in their cupboards, as they didn’t know how to recycle them safely. We are grateful to Oundle Town Council, Oundle School and the Repair Café team, for supporting our project.”
“We enjoyed learning about E-Waste Recycle’s business,” said Ned. “They showed us the
all data (if required), before being refurbished or recycled. Processing is still on-going at the time of writing this article, but once finished, E-Waste Recycle are keen to make a donation to a local charity of Ned and Joseph’s choice so that some benefit comes back to the Oundle community.
“We came up with the idea to fulfil the volunteering section of our bronze Duke of
it was much more popular than they had ever imagined it might be