Empower Up, a local nonprofit electronics recycler, will close permanently on Aug. 27, according to Eddie Lang, the board’s treasurer.
The recycler has operated from a storefront at 5000 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., accepting working and nonworking electronics such as computers, and refurbishing them for resale.
A diminished demand for the goods and increased competition among used computer retailers led to the decision to close, Lang wrote in a news release.
After the store closes, the Humane Society for Southwest Washington’s ReTails Thrift Store in the same complex will accept electronics donations.
