Across the firm, we are combining our business and philanthropic expertise to cultivate thriving communities. Within our Buenos Aires Technology Center, employees are bringing new life to old computers and donating them locally.

Toxic byproducts of improperly disposed electronic waste may jeopardize the health of communities and create negative consequences for people and the environment. There is an excess of damaging, mismanaged electronic waste in the world. 

But, while there is an excess of electronic waste globally, there are many places—Argentina, for example—where people lack access to technology. Technologists at J.P. Morgan are working to address both problems.

Motivated to safely reduce the health and environmental risks of electronic waste and simultaneously provide resources to those in need, employees came together to find new homes for the firm’s bank’s decommissioned technology equipment. 

Various teams united to refurbish desktop computers that were no longer in use. Once the desktop computers were restored to a suitable condition and hard drives were removed for security purposes, employees needed to find a way to make the devices functional for potential recipients even though they no longer had working operating systems.