Recycle Health has collected more than 5,000 wearable devices and donated them to nonprofit organizations, including senior living homes, homeless shelters and veterans.
The group has collected more than 5,000 wearable devices since it got its start in 2015.
Lisa Gualtieri, an assistant professor at Tufts Medical School, is asking consumers to send her their unwanted Fitbits, Apple Watches and other health-tracking gadgets. Her program,, collects fitness trackers, refurbishes them and shares them with underserved populations. Gualtieri got the idea when she was preparing a lecture for her students and saw a startling statistic:suggest that about 30 percent of smart watches and fitness trackers are abandoned. Gualtieri thought it was highly wasteful that these devices so often end up in landfills. She also considered that perhaps they aren't being used in the right ways.
That's particularly true, suggests Gualtieri, for seniors who might need support removing the packaging and setting the devices up, or for those who wouldn't be able to afford one on their own but are motivated to set goals for themselves with the encouragement from their communities.After Gualtieri had the idea for Recycle Health, she put out a call on social media for people in her network to send her their trackers.
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