Come along to the Little Theatre carpark, Chamberlain Street, Wells, on Monday 20th October, where The FIXY van will be ready to collect a variety of electronic items such as old phones, laptops, tablets, PCs, and associated cables and chargers.

You can drop off your old and unwanted tech at any time during EcoWeek+ 11th-20th October, at the Town Hall in the Market Place, and FIXY will collect everything on Monday.

All donated devices will undergo a thorough data wiping, resetting, and refurbishing process before being redistributed to individuals facing digital exclusion.

This could be tablets for housebound elderly people, mobile phones for the homeless and so on. Refurbished smartphones are even used for remote monitoring and stabilising of insulin levels in diabetic children with implanted insulin pumps, so that these children’s lives are kept as normal as possible. When devices are not suitable for refurbishing and donating, their component parts, some remarkably valuable, can be recovered and re-used.