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Buckelew sweetens the offer by including classes on how to use the computer and free repairs for life.
"Computers are expensive and something that helps my family with furthering their education is really important," says Sheri Stewart, a recipient of among Buckelew's computers. The classes, though, were the large draw: "If you bought inside a store you do not know how you can arrange it, the dos and dont's, nothing."
Buckelew sees computer reuse being an method to ameliorate a number of social problems, including pollution and poverty.
"There's still an electronic divide [between socioeconomic classes]. And there's this e-waste stream where people are throwing out these computers that are perfectly good. Discuss two issues with one solution," he says.
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"Unfortunately, part of this is probably a lost art. The 'greatest generation' that lived with the Depression, it was a part of their day-to-day behavior," says Professor Lastovicha. Far fewer people have continued that tradition since it is time-consuming and can be something that people laugh at. "It can be a tough sell, unless you have to do it - that is what's happened."
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