Trashware

Trashware in North America or Totally reconditioned hardware in the UK and Ireland is computer equipment that is assembled from old hardware, using cleaned and checked parts from different computers, for use by disadvantaged people to bridge the digital divide.

Trashware, with its social aims, is different from retrocomputing, which has only cultural and recreational purposes.

Computers being collected for recycling at a pickup event in Olympia, Washington, United States.