TECHNOLOGY FOR PEOPLE GROUP INC.

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THE TFPG INC. NEEDS YOU!

• Do you love your community?
• What to learn some new skills or improve on the ones you have?
• Want to protect it? 
• Want to make it  better place?
• Can you spare Little bit of your time, expertise and patience?
• Volunteer Opportunities available. We need a few good human beings who are computer savvy, who know how to refurbish computer hardware, install software, build complete computer systems from the bottom up, and/or pick up donations.
  
  
  Together, let us change the face of our province and communities by keeping previously used parts and components, manuals, disks and software, and all of those computer gadgets, out of the Landfills. It's about time we do something before it gets to far out of hand.

By Matthew Della Valle        

Did you know that computer parts and products are becoming a real problem for municipalities without the infrastructure designed to stem the flow or halt e-toxins from entering our landfills and our environment? Computer circuit boards and batteries contain heavy metals like lead and cadmium, cathode ray tube monitors or CRTs have lead-oxide and barium. Brominated flame-retardants are used in printed circuit boards, cables and plastic casing. PVC or Poly Vinyl Chloride coated copper cables and plastic casings release highly toxic dioxins and furans when burnt to salvage the valuable metals such as the copper.

Computers and flat screen monitors contain mercury switches, computers with older capacitors and transformers contain PC B's. Landfills, as we have come to know, leak these toxic chemicals. Burying it is not solution. The attitude "out of site, out of mind" simply will not suffice in our book; this might work for some but not for this organization. We take great pride in our beautiful province and we, as a whole, believe we have found a solution: To refurbish, repair and distribute computers to low income families who have school age children and who do not have the means nor the financial ability to buy a computer.

We here at TFPG INC.  make the solemn promise to the people of this province right here and now. We will do everything possible to protect our people and province as a whole from having these toxins end up in our landfills when they may be still of some use to someone. We will implement new programs, as we evolve and as the need arises, to curb this ever-increasing problem.

We need you the, consumers of these products, not to throw any of it out. If it still works, is repairable or is just old, donate it to us we will do everything possible to ensure it gets reused or recycled in some way shape or form. 

Together, this province's people and  TFPG INC. can prevent or put a good dent in this problem. We love Newfoundland; let's make it better place in which to live, a piece at a time.