For too many years, we’ve heard, “when in doubt, throw it out.” An admirable aspiration, perhaps, if you’re cleaning out a kid’s school locker or Aunt Millie’s stocking drawer, but at Technekes, we know a lot old stuff still has plenty of life in it.
For example, when we moved into new offices in the Research Triangle Park, we were left with a lot of unneeded, but still usable, office furniture. Truckloads, in fact.
It would’ve been easy to just drag it to the curb and leave it. (OK. Not that easy, but you get the idea.) However, that’s not the way we think at Technekes. In Wake County, NC alone (seat of the state capital and one of three counties represented in the RTP), nearly 80,000 residents (8.8%) live at or below the poverty level. No question, the need is great. Furthermore, according to the EPA, furniture accounts for over 9 million tons of landfill every year.
What a waste.
Our old furniture, however, is being put to good use by The Green Chair Project, a newly formed non-profit corporation created to be a donation receptacle for gently used household furnishings to be given back to those in need throughout our community.
In fact, we’re proud to say that we were The Green Chair Project’s very first donor.
If you’d like to know more, visit thegreenchair.org. And as always, if you’ve got other ideas of how we can do good, we’d welcome your ideas.
