After watching the "Story of Stuff," I started to think about the profound role "stuff" plays in my own life. After an introspective glance into my own role as a consumer, I realized that the majority of items that I buy are electronic devices, mainly music players, laptops, cellphones, etc. In fact, there's a whole area designated in my garage at home to all of our electronics. My dad is an engineer and loves to experiment with devices so, over the years, we've acquired the oldest of computers (floppy disk compatible) to rather recent, yet bulky desktops. I'm equally to blame-I have about 6 old cell phones, 2 ipods, 3 diskplayers, and a boombox that have not been used in years!
That's why the National Cristina Foundation was my calling, in a sense. What the non-profit organization does is recycle old electronics through donations and transport them to educational settings that would otherwise not be able to afford electronic devices such as computers. For example, the foundation has been able to send computers to special education classrooms as well as underpriviledged high schools and elementary schools.
It's really easy to get involved!
Donating is easily done online. All you have to do is meet the minimum requirements of the foundation and they will either come by your desired location to pick up the item or you can drive to one of their many locations nation-wide
http://www.cristina.org/
this video talks about the organization some more (about the first minute and a half of the clip): http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6436440n&tag=related;photovideo
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