Over 200 computer monitors that could have otherwise been destined for the dump have been given a new life with charities, families and students across the state.
The monitors were purchased by Hydro at the height of the pandemic when hundreds of staff were told to work from home.
Each screen would be worth upwards of $100 new, but are now not needed by the company.
“These are now surplus to requirements and rather than them go to waste, we really wanted to make sure that we could share those monitors around,” Hydro’s Ruth Groom said.
“We’re so happy to be handing over the computer monitors to organisations like St Vincent de Paul where they’re most needed and will be of greatest benefit to society.”
St Vincent de Paul CEO Heather Kent said she was “just delighted” when she heard the screens were up for grabs.
“There are so many ways in which we intend to put these to really great effect,” she said.
The charity received 60 monitors, some of which would be paired with laptops previously donated by TasNetworks.
“You can probably imagine that in a workplace setting, a laptop’s great, but if you have a monitor that’s of a high standard to supplement that it makes it so much more workable,” Kent said.
Monitors are also being donated to Neighborhood Houses Tasmania, the Salvation Army, Beacon Foundation and the Tasmanian Council of Social Services.
