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Not we'll recycle it. most have gone to students here locally. also, we have a separate section of the computers we refurbish which have gone overseas to community centers. >> reporter: to places in kenya, cameroon, the philippines, mexico, and sri lanka where the computer center was named after the wen team. >> when we found out that there was a place pretty literally half way across the world that was actually named after our project. >> reporter: but wen wanted to do more so they introduced an ordinance to ban the dumping of electronics. >> we got the law passed statewide. hopefully we can ...

Computers, it all adds up and especially back when everybody was using crt monitors, each one had between four and eight pounds of lead, add it up and it's a lot of lead going into our ground fill and going into our ground water. >> reporter: driven to find creative solutions for his community's problems, alex begin win, western innovations networks were with his peers. >> it takes up a lot of time. you really have to we dedicated to doing something this big. >> i love helping people. i love that that's what we do. >> reporter: working with his hometown of westerly, rhode island, he set up a p...

Workers themselves. they were able to ride in on rail to the same point to we were able to get to the other night, and once they got to that point, they are required to -- because of the debris that's on the track, they have to dismount and they have to walk about a mile and a half to get to the point where we had gotten to the other night. our hopes was to establish a fresh air establish up at what we call the mule train, basically the para center and computer center of the long wall, we would leave two teams there, backup deals, and have a team cross the long wall face, find the missing indi...