The average American throws away 70 pounds of electronics a year. Most of it still works.
Regrove collects unwanted laptops, phones, and tablets, repairs what can be saved, and passes them on to older adults and students who need a device. Everything we can't save goes to a certified recycler.
Data wiped to NIST 800-88 standards
Our impact so far
Goal: 6 tons in year one.
No lbs collected to report yet.
No data yet: devices refurbished
No data yet: devices placed
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students trained
Three ways to take part
Give a device.
You have a drawer with a dead laptop in it. We'll take it, wipe it, and find it a next owner.
Get a device.
If you're a student or an older adult who needs a working computer, tell us what you need.
Learn why it matters.
A free six-module course on the e-waste crisis and the circular economy.
How it works
You book.
Two minutes on the form. Drop off, or we collect if you have 10+ items.
We wipe.
Every drive is sanitised to NIST 800-88 Purge, or physically destroyed. You get it in writing.
We repair.
New RAM, new drive, fresh OS. Devices we can't fix go to our certified recycler for material recovery.
Someone uses it.
It goes to a student, a senior centre, or a community partner — and we publish where.
The problem, in three numbers
- 62 million tonnes
- e-waste the world generated in 2022, an 82% jump from 2010
- 22.3%
- how much of it was formally collected and recycled
- $91 billion
- the value of the raw materials inside it; only $19bn was recovered
Source: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2024 (UNITAR/ITU). On the current curve, we hit 82 million tonnes by 2030.
What we're building right now
We haven't taken the photographs yet. When we do, they go here — the bench, the volunteers, a stack of labelled laptops, dated and counted. We'd rather show you an empty space than a stock photo.