A Big Thank You to The Uptown Theatre

Our newest donor for re-purposed drives is the Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota! Thanks to their generosity, Sugar Labs will be able to put their own special OS onto the drives and ship them across the world to make the technology and connectivity as accessible as possible.
 
  The Uptown Theatre opened in 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Uptown is a single screen movie theatre that shows mostly foreign and independent films, in addition to playing classic and cult movies every weekend at midnight.
 
For more information on Uptown, check out their page here.
 
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Roche Donates USB Drives, Thank You

Thank you Morgan Watson for donating used USB drives. The drives have been received and re-purposed for donation to SugarLabs.org.

About Roche: A pioneer in healthcare for nearly 120 years. We are known for pharmaceutical medicines since the company was founded in 1896 in Basel, Switzerland. Today, Roche creates innovative medicines and diagnostic tests that help millions of patients globally.

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About

Recycle USB is a non-profit website dedicated to turning used and donated flash drives into portable learning devices for children, schools and education institutions.

The partnership between RecycleUSB and SugarLabs started back in December of 2009 when flash drives began having the storage capacity to hold a portable operating system (about 2GBs)

Those involved with Recycle USB include:

Sugar Labs

Sugar Labs
Software Freedom Conservancy
1995 Broadway, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10023-5882
USA
Contact Sugar Labs

Sugar labs is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) organization; our EIN# is 41-2203632.

Sugar Labs

Nexcopy Inc.
13 Orchard Road, Ste 102

Lake Forest, CA 92630
+1 949 481 6478
contact (@) nexcopy.com

Nexcopy Incorporated dedicates this web space to providing a non profit portal for those looking to donate USB flash memory for the Sugar On A Stick program.  Nexcopy also donates labor and equipment, at no charge, to load Sugar onto your recycled USB drive.

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Start Recycling

Recycling your USB drive is very easy.  If you are in question on whether this service is still going, please check our Press Page and you’ll see recent posts with big “thanks” to our donors.

Simply complete the following three steps:

Before you Start – Please Read:

This website does not e-recycle dead or non-working flash drives.
Do not send non-working flash drives
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While on the subject… please send decent flash drives that work, are clean, not sticky or dirty. Keep in mind, these flash drives are DONATED TO LESS FORTUNATE KIDS.

Please send drives in the same condition as if giving to your own child, grandchild, niece or nephew.

Thank You!

Step 1:  Collect all eligible flash drives [Sugar requires 1GB or larger]

Step 2:  Send the USB drives to RecycleUSB

USB sticks are durable devices, however, they do require some amount of packaging during transit. Please use some level of packaging for the shipment.

  • Recycle USB
  • 13 Orchard Road, Ste 102
  • Lake Forest, CA 92630  USA
  • USA
  • +1 949 481 6478

Step 3: Include a note about your company along with the donated drives. In your note, give a description of what your business does and we’ll post about it with a link to your site. We get thousands of visitors each month, so spread the word, let the world know you’ve done something good.

If you would like to purchase flash drives and donate them to the cause, please contact RecycleUSB for more details.

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The New Way To Recycle

Recycle USB is a website for people looking to recycle their USB flash drives for a better cause.

Send your USB to school.

Each donated drive is loaded with Sugar, making it Sugar on a Stick.  Sugar is a standalone computer operating system which runs off a USB flash drive.  Sugar is developed to provide children a free portable and interactive learning environment in a self contained thumb drive.

Sending your USB stick to a recycle center holds far less Good Will then sending your USB stick to a child wanting to learn.

Here is how the USB journey begins:

  • Step 1: Collect all your old and unused USB flash drives. **Sugar requires a minimum 1GB stick**
  • Step 2: Send your USB drive(s) to RecycleUSB.com
  • Step 3: We receive the drives and perform a low-level format to clean the drive of any data.
  • Step 4: We then data load “Sugar On A Stick” operating system onto your donated USB flash drive to make the portable learning computer
  • Step 5: We send the finished product to Sugar Labs for deployment to any number of locations throughout the world.

Once Sugar Labs receives your donated drive, it is then deployed to any number of possible locations around the world.  Your generous donation could go to a child in Peru, or South Africa or Thailand!  Your flash drive will become a portable computer for a very lucky child.

This Good Will act of sending in your USB stick is far greater than recycling old components of a flash drive for a couple pennies in return

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Our Mission

Recycle USB is a non-profit website dedicated on turning used USB flash drives into portable learning devices for children, schools and education institutions.

“Sugar On A Stick” is a portable learning platform loaded onto your recycled USB flash drive.  Sugar is a standalone Linux based Operating System developed by Sugar Labs.  Recycle USB is the data loading arm for Sugar Labs – our job is loading the drives with Sugar and sending them to Sugar Labs for global deployment.

SUGAR LABS
Free computer Operating System for Kids

A computer environment which runs from a USB stick. A standalone solution customized for youngsters to learn interactively.

Learn Sugar
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Recycle Your Flash Drives For A Good Cause

Join the masses who are looking to do something productive with their old and unwanted USB flash drives.

Donate your USB flash drive and turn it into a Portable Learning center for youngsters between 5-12 years of age.

RecycleUSB has teamed with Sugar Labs, an award winning learning platform, to recycle USB drives into a standalone computer system which can run from any computer.

Don’t throw away those flash drives – donate them!  Take a minute to explore this site and you’ll quickly realize there is a new way to Recycle USB drives.

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