Rainmakers Press Release
For Immediate Release: March 25, 2008
Contact: John Crooks, VSP
Phone:  317-797-4320
Email: john@vscavengers.org

Contact: Eric Goldsmith, eScrap Inc.
Phone:  317-545-4747
Email: eric@escrapinc.com

Indianapolis, IN: March 25, 2008 – The Virtual Scavengers Project (VSP) and eScrap Inc., a GGI Recycling LLC company, (formerly known as The Goldsmith Group Inc.) announces a strategic partnership to improve both organizations’ ability to protect the environment, provide low-cost refurbished computers to the community and train unemployed and under-employed workers in computer technology.

John Crooks, Executive Director of VSP, explains that VSP accepts donations of computers and electronic equipment. Usable equipment is sold to organizations and individuals at a reasonable cost. VSP works with the nonprofit and low income communities to help them bridge the digital divide. VSP has been working to find a better way to properly dispose of the equipment it receives that is no longer usable or repairable. Under this new partnership, this material will now be diverted to eScrap Inc. to recycle properly.

“By working together on the growing e-scrap management problem both organizations will be able to accomplish their missions more effectively,” said Eric Goldsmith, president of eScrap Inc. “We can best handle large quantities of reusable or recyclable materials. Our market places on the web, www.usedprinters.com, our eBay store “usedprinters” and our sales to commercial and retail clients allows GGI to resell over one million pounds of electronics for reuse or recycling annually.”

“eScrap Inc. can help VSP do a better job of providing environmentally friendly management of our surplus,” said Crooks. “VSP will have full access to any re-usable asset that eScrap Inc. refurbishes or could be refurbished by VSP trainees. By sharing revenue and assets both organizations will focus best on their core models. This partnership will allow VSP to focus on its mission of providing low-cost used computers and free hands-on technical skills training for under-employed workers, which is our specialty.”

VSP, a nonprofit corporation was founded in 1998 and is the state’s oldest and largest nonprofit computer reuse program. VSP collects used computer systems, refurbishes them and provides them at low or no cost to nonprofit organizations, communities in developing nations, and needy individuals and families. For more information visit www.vscavengers.org.

The Goldsmith family began in the scrap metals business in 1912. They began managing electronic waste in 1968. Goldsmith Group became eScrap Inc. in 2007 when Eric Goldsmith bought the business from its founder, his father, Phil Goldsmith. eScrap Inc. specializes in the logistics of removing, recycling and reselling used and surplus new computer and electronic equipment. eScrap Inc. also offers data destruction, brokerage and upgrading of PC’s, notebooks and servers. For more information visit www.escrapinc.com.