Terna focuses on the circular economy by limiting the production of IT waste. The manager of the national electricity grid launches the project "TernaReuse: Community Circular Computers”, with which he sold to the cooperative Reware its first asset of decommissioned IT equipment, in order to carry out social responsibility projects, with a particular focus on sustainability and impact on the environment, allowing the regeneration of PCs and monitors and their subsequent use.
In particular, the company led by Stefano Donnarumma has sold to Reware, which provides services aimed at extending the life cycle of electronic and IT equipment, 630 computers and over 60 monitors to be regenerated and donated to institutions that need them and which will be identified at both regional and national level. The collaboration between the two companies has a three-year duration and Terna aims to donate at least 20% of the Electronic devices over this time.
The project makes it possible to reduce the computer waste, highly polluting, reducing the environmental impact, but also to support the computerization of schools, also representing an environmental education tool on the importance of reuse.
Terna - reads a note - has already donated the first 77 computers to four comprehensive schools in Rome and, during the European Week for Waste Reduction "SERR 2021", scheduled this year from 20 to 28 November, will deliver further assets to other inclusive institutes, whose needs have been surveyed thanks to the collaboration with non-profit organizations in the area, with a view to the circular economy of the community.
A part of the IT material transferred by Terna to Reware will also go to non-profit organizations to facilitate their activities which today also take place in smart working. In this regard, 10 pieces of equipment have already been donated to the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association (AISM).
The collaboration between the two parties is inspired by the path taken by the social enterprise with Legambiente as part of the ECCO project – Circular Economies of the Community of Legambiente Onlus. The association is engaged on a national level on issues of Sustainable Development and, in this case, on the front of technological disposals, of furniture and equipment to be put to new uses, working, in particular, for the computerization of Italian public schools.
