Last Friday, we ran a computer recycling fair and gear swap at Rally. I highly encourage your firms to follow some of the patterns of what work so well here at Rally.

From many dimessions, it was a huge success and tons of fun.  You can see our internal event announcement in our Greening Rally hive.

• We recycled 2,353 lbs lbs of computer gear with a local recycler
• We swapped some great items and collectibles between employees
• We down-cycled usable machines to a local charity

There were a number of things that were great about this event.

1. We organized this with relationship to our move to a new facility.  (It was a good time to clean out the closets)
2. We organized it as a gear swap and recycling event, so that we could reuse the good stuff.
3. We set-up a down-cycling solution with The Jared Polis Foundation for usable machines.
4. We contracted a Denver recycler called Luminous to keep from sending the waste to Gana or China - they charged us per pound for all types of electronics gear.  Rally committed to a minimum wieght to lock in a low price.
   
5. We passed along the cheap recycling costs to all our employees - $5 for one item or $10 for more than one machine. (This is much cheaper that recycling through community recycling at Ecocycle CHARM.)
   
6. We provided beer on a Friday afternoon and enjoyed ping-pong, wii and foosball with folks from all over the company.

I want to give a special thank you to Carl Schachter at Luminous and Jessie from our IT team  for their great support of this event.