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Electronic Reusing Association · US

Your retired hardware becomes someone's first laptop.

We collect, securely wipe and refurbish the technology your organization has finished with — then put it in the hands of schools, nonprofits and students who couldn't otherwise afford it.

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A student in Chile receiving a refurbished laptop

For the IT director

Certified destruction.

For the eighth grader

Then a second life.

24,000 Devices refurbished and placed in 2025
3.4M lbs E-waste diverted from US landfills
12 Countries served through partner programs

Programs

Three ways your hardware travels.

Youth assembling a desktop PC at an ERA workshop

Workshops

Parts to PC

Hands-on builds where students take a stripped chassis and walk out with a working machine — and the skills to keep it running.

Scholarship recipient with refurbished laptop

Scholarships

The ERA Scholarship

Refurbished laptops paired with annual awards for students writing on sustainability and the future of tech reuse.

International donation recipients with laptops

International

Donation partners abroad

Long-term partnerships with schools and NGOs in twelve countries — from Chile to Madagascar to Bosnia.

ERA technicians processing IT assets

The process

Everything that happens between your dock and a classroom.

  1. 01 Pickup Locked transport from your dock with full chain-of-custody documentation.
  2. 02 Audit Asset tags, serial numbers and condition recorded on receipt.
  3. 03 Wipe or destroy NIST 800-88 erase or NAID-certified physical shredding, your choice.
  4. 04 Refurbish or recycle Reuse-first; what can't be saved is recycled to R2v3 standards.
Children in Madagascar with donated computers

Field story · Bongolava, Madagascar

We delivered 240 PCs to schools in Madagascar last spring. For most students it was the first computer they had ever touched.

Compliance

Have hardware to retire? We'll handle the rest.

Schedule a pickup

Pickups across eight US metros and overflow nationwide on request.