PC Recycler Launches Non-Profit Re-use
and Recycle Program
Chantilly, VA – March 3, 2008: Turtle Wings, an
electronics recycling company, has developed a powerful example
of a cooperative, charitable venture. Turtle Wings is a company
formed by the recent merger of PC Recycler and Turtle Wings,
both leaders in the electronics recycling field. Beginning in
March, Turtle Wings will be sharing their community drop off
days with different nonprofits to help raise awareness about the
organization’s mission. The company has been providing a
community drop off day where individuals can bring their excess
electronic products to be recycled for several years.
Specifically, Turtle Wings will work with nonprofit
organizations who achieve their missions through the collection
and re-use of common household items or personal belongings for
the purposes of redistributing them for the benefit of others.
Jeremy Farber, COO of Turtle Wings, stated, “People who come to
the monthly recycling event are already doing a good thing by
recycling their electronics instead of putting them in a
landfill. Turtle Wings would like to give people the opportunity
to do yet another good thing at the same time, all in the same
location.”
Farber recognized this as a unique opportunity to not only help
raise awareness about nonprofit organizations in the local
community, but to also be strategic about the company’s
philanthropic intentions. “It just made sense to focus on reuse
and recycle non-profits, because their missions are aligned with
our company’s environmental and community service objectives,”
said Farber. “We’re fortunate to have a lot of foot traffic at
our community drop-off days, and these organizations can now
share in that exposure.”
Turtle Wings is working with Possibilities Consulting, a
fundraising and nonprofit management consulting company, to
coordinate the Nonprofit Re-Use and Recycle Program. “I
realized through my work with Possibilities Consulting that many
of these organizations face the same challenges in the area of
marketing and awareness of their missions,” says Farber, “and
the idea of a Nonprofit Re-use and Recycle Program seems like a
great solution for everyone.”
The featured nonprofit will publicize the occasion to their
network and mailing lists while Farber will feature the
organizations and the types of items they are looking to
collect, in the regular advertising for his community drop-off
day. The first organization Turtle Wings is partnering with is
Diana’s Books, whose mission is to collect and redistribute used
books in communities who need them.
Drop off days are the second Friday and Saturday of every month
at the Turtle Wings warehouse in Chantilly, VA. People are
encouraged to bring items for the nonprofit organization to that
location, along with any other of the recyclable articles that
Turtle Wings usually collects, such as computers, monitors,
printers and other electronics. The first nonprofit collection
is scheduled for March 7th and 8th.
Contact: Meredith Maslich
Phone: 703-938-1246
Email: mmaslich@possibilitiesconsulting.com
