Earth Day is April 22. In honor of Earth Month two local nonprofits, Seattle’s Friendly Earth and Issaquah’s Eastside Baby Corner, are joining to forces to collect and redistribute or recycle used laptops.

Friendly Earth, whose mission is to keep electronics out of the landfill, will refurbish as many of the laptops as possible and recycle the rest. Eastside Baby Corner, an organization dedicated to helping children thrive, will work through their social service network to give the refurbished laptops to local school children in need.

The goal for the Laptops for Little Ones Drive is to collect 500 used laptops. Laptops will be accepted in any condition by both organizations — so people on either side of Lake Washington will have easy access to a drop-off site. Collection times and locations for Eastside Baby Corner can be found at www.babycorner.org/donate-goods/. For drop-off times at Friendly Earth, please contact Andrew Shute at recycle@friendlyearth.org. Additional collection sites would be greatly appreciated. Anyone interested in collecting laptops at their place of business should contact Christine White at christinew@babycorner.org. Also welcome is the donation of software to install on the laptops before they are given to the children.

Eastside Baby Corner staff