Program to provide jobs, training to people with disabilities

Cell phones, telephones, cell phone and laptop batteries and rechargeable batteries are just a few of the items accepted by CompuCycle

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Houston electronics recycling company recently announced that it will provide jobs and training to people living with disabilities, thanks to a new partnership with Easter Seals.

CompuCycle will offer permanent employment positions to Easter Seals Greater Houston's clients and Easter Seals will provide initial training courses to its clients to teach necessary job skills including recycling, refurbishing electronics, and basic computer proficiency.

Easter Seals serves clients with cerebral palsy and all other kinds of disabilities.

"Our clients have a difficult time finding employment, and often, an even harder time maintaining these jobs," Easter Seals Greater Houston CEO Elise Hough explained in a release. "What's most exciting for us is that through comprehensive training, our clients will have job skills that aren't only applicable to their work at CompuCycle, but for the rest of their lives."

CompuCycle and Easter Seals representatives are seeking corporate electronic waste donations in place of a grant or cash donation in order to provide the capital to fund and maintain the program.

Through the new initiative, corporations will donate their electronic waste to Easter Seals Greater Houston. CompuCycle will collect, audit and process the waste and then donate net proceeds from the equipment to the program instead of paying it back to the corporation.

Eventually, CompuCycle hopes to expand this long-term program on a national level.

Clive Hess, president of CompuCycle, describes the initiative as a "win-win for everyone."

"Corporations can responsibly dispose of equipment that they no longer need, or don't know what to do with, using CompuCycle, a certified company, to safely refurbish the equipment," he said in a release. "Through dropping off these goods with us, these businesses are also simultaneously donating to a terrific initiative, and helping to create jobs for employable people living with a with disability."

If you or your corporation are interested in donating end-of-life electronic waste in support of this program, contact CompuCycle online or call 713-869-6700.

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