A damp day greeted us at the EDAY drop of zone we were stationed at.  Some sorting out, and at 9am we were ready, dressed in the latest high-visibility jackets!  We were assigned to a 'bay' and told how to sort the items.  Printers in one bin, screens in another and PCs in a third.  Sacks appeared for the all-sorts items of peripherals, cables and odds and sods.

The primary idea of EDAY is to help people dispose of old computers in a 'correct' fashion.  I had imagined some of the recycled machines wound up helping people who couldn't otherwise afford them, but it seems that there is only a limited element to this.  Certainly, if gear is truly at the end of it's life, the key objective is to ensure that it doesn't go into some landfill somewhere.

After a slow start, we were underway.  Along with some friends from Microsoft and HP, and a number of other volunteers, we were soon piling old IT equipment out of cars and into bins.   Mountains of old HP machines, old Apples, old 'no-namers' and an enormous everest-like peak of old printers. 

For me, it was a bit strange binning machines of the sort we were deploying not that long ago.  Many of the machines were more more than ten years old, but it feels like only yesterday.  Of course, there were some interesting machines surfacing - a rather tired Sinclair Spectrum was one gem!

All in all, a good day's work and a great opportunity to have been part of doing something for the community.

The Kinetics e-day  team,  Onne Hiemstra, Juliet McGurk, Matt Anstis and Andrew Hunt