Mike Duke turns the screwdriver over in his hand and quickly takes out screws.
The computer tower he works on easily could have wound up in the city’s Birchwood landfill. But instead, it will be taken apart and shipped to Clinton, Tenn., where it will be broken down further and sold as valuable parts.
“I like it,” said Mr. Duke, a client of Orange Grove Center. “It’s good.”
Orange Grove Center has beefed up its electronics recycling program in the last few months in an attempt to make sure the computers and cell phones it takes in are recycled to the bare bones, said Tera Roberts, the center’s director of adult services.
“We want to provide any incentive we can for recycling,” Ms. Roberts said.