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About Regrove

Regrove is a student-led project that collects unwanted electronics, refurbishes what can be saved, and passes it on to older adults and students who need a device. Everything else goes to a certified recycler. We publish what we collect and where it goes.

Why we started

Regrove was founded to help combat income inequality and the separative effects it has on education.

Not every family has the money to buy a device, and at Regrove, we understand that it can be a major roadblock. Many households have old devices that were once used and are never going to see the light of day again.

Giving tech a second chance not only helps a family in need, but it also helps keep the environment cleaner. We feel that small contributions can lead to dramatic changes over time.

It only takes one initiative to start a movement, and at Regrove, we believe that we can be a positive asset to our community.

Meet the founders

Shyam Srinivasan

Shyam Srinivasan

Shyam Srinivasan is currently a rising junior at the North Attleboro School District. His passions include soccer, biology, and engineering technology.

Swaroop Srinivasan

Swaroop Srinivasan

Swaroop Srinivasan is a rising junior at the North Attleboro School District. His interests include soccer, robotics, and working with seniors.

Our partners

Our first partnerships are still being confirmed.

Three kinds go here once they’re signed: the certified recycler that takes what we can’t save, the schools and senior centres that devices go out to, and the libraries hosting our collection points. Each will be named, and the recycler will be linked to its certification so you can check it.

None are listed yet because naming an organisation that hasn’t agreed to it would be a claim about them, not about us. What we will and won’t sign

Our commitments

Five promises. Each one links to the page where you can check whether we’re keeping it.

  • We publish our numbers.

    Everything collected, refurbished, placed and recycled is on the impact page, read live out of our records — including the months where the number is small.

    See the numbers

  • We never export hazardous waste.

    What we can't refurbish goes to a certified recycler, and we check the certification in the R2 or e-Stewards directory rather than taking a logo on a website for it.

    How we check

  • We wipe every drive.

    Sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 Purge, or physically destroyed if it can't be wiped. Business donors get it in writing, device by device.

    What happens to your data

  • We say no to what we can't handle.

    CRT monitors, appliances, smoke detectors and swollen batteries. Saying yes and then quietly landfilling something would be worse than turning it away.

    What we accept

  • We tell donors where their device went.

    Ask when you donate and we'll write to you once yours has been processed, with what happened to it.

    Donate a device

Our status

TODO — legal status not stated anywhere

docs/CONTENT.md: state plainly “whether you’re a registered nonprofit, under a fiscal sponsor, or neither”. Nothing in docs/ says which, and docs/SPEC.md forbids claiming tax-deductibility the project doesn’t have — so this is the one section on the site where a guess could cause a donor a real problem. State the true answer, including if the answer is “neither, and donations are not tax-deductible”.

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