Computer Recycling (not TVs)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
(prior to 1:00 pm opening of Council)
St. Mark's parking lot

Got old computers, monitors, fax machines and printers filling up your office or garage storage?

Environmental Stewardship Department
of Christian Faith in Action has the answer!

Corona Visions, Inc.
411 N. Medina
San Antonio, TX  78207
210.521.7612
www.coronavisions.com

Make plans now to bring your old equipment to Council.

About Corona Visions

Corona Visions has provided electronic recycling to the San Antonio, Central and South Texas area since 1997. The company is owned and operated by Vandell Norwood.  Corona Visions is a for-profit business with a commitment to the environmental and economic health of our area. Corona Visions' mission is to provide high quality electronic recycling services to South Texas, eliminate waste ending up as landfills, and provide safe and stable career opportunities to people in the San Antonio area.

Everything is inventoried by serial number and they can provide a detailed report of every item processed. Corona Visions find creative cradle-to-cradle and cradle-to-grave solutions for materials received and provides you with peace of mind knowing that everything was recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.  Corona Visions has been accepted by the Basel Action Network, (BAN.org), an organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts. This endorsement means that BAN has accepted us and verified that we are not exporting our toxic electronics to less wealthy countries.

The Process

Corona Visions will pick up our old computers, fax machines, printers, monitors, etc. in a truck parked in the St. Mark's East parking lot.  This equipment will then be delivered to the Corona Visions site where it is assessed as to whether it can be reconditioned or needs to be broken down into component parts for recycling.  Hard drives on computers and fax machine memories are erased using the the DOD-5220-22 erase menu, the standard used by the Department of Defense to thoroughly erase to government specifications.  Computer equipment that has not been treated in this manner can create security and privacy concerns for the companies that originally owned this equipment - for the life of the equipment. Corona Visions ensures that all sensitive information cannot be accessed by even the most talented hacker. We make sure that anything that has reached the end of its usefulness is disposed of as ecologically as possible. Our goal is to work toward a landfill free environment.