Merchants Recycles Electronics to Support Camp Good Days Through 2025 “e-Scrap for Camp” Event
Merchants Insurance Group once again took part in Sunnking’s annual “e-Scrap for Camp” event, an electronics recycling initiative that benefits Camp Good Days & Special Times, a nonprofit organization supporting children, adults, and families affected by cancer.
Each year, Sunnking, an environmentally responsible electronics recycler, invites businesses across Buffalo, Rochester, and Utica, New York, home to its three regional facilities, to collect and recycle unwanted electronics over a two-week period. The proceeds from recycling are donated directly to Camp Good Days & Special Times, which provides life-changing experiences like summer camps and retreats for those impacted by cancer.
Merchants’ corporate headquarters contributed 3,740 pounds of recycled electronics to this year’s event!
Since the program began in 2010, Sunnking has made a meaningful impact environmentally and socially, helping to divert more than 6.8 million pounds of electronics from landfills and raised over $160,000 for Camp Good Days!
A special thank you goes to Jason Gallo, Enterprise Technology Services & Security Manager, for once again leading and coordinating Merchants’ involvement in this important cause.
To learn more about Merchants’ philanthropy, visit our Philanthropy page.
About Sunnking Electronics Recycling
Founded in 2000, Sunnking, Inc. is New York State’s first R2/RIOS Certified electronics recycling, data destruction, and IT asset management company dealing in end-of-life electronic equipment. With facilities located in Buffalo, Brockport, and Utica, NY, Sunnking specializes in collecting, refurbishing, reselling, and recycling electronic products from residential, commercial, and municipal partners. For more information, visit www.sunnking.com, call 585-637-8365, or email office@sunnking.com.
About Camp Good Days
Camp Good Days and Special Times, Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer through summer camping experiences and year-round events and activities. Camp Good Days was founded 42 years ago by Gary Mervis to provide a residential camping program for his daughter, Teddi Mervis, and 62 other children with cancer from Upstate New York. It has since grown to become one of the largest organizations of its kind in the world. Camp Good Days was the fourth program of its kind in the country and the first to be started by a layperson. Many of the programs and services started at Camp Good Days have been used as models for cancer treatment centers and organizations throughout the United States and Canada. All programs and services at Camp Good Days are offered free of charge to children with cancer and children that have or have lost a parent or sibling with cancer. Camp Good Days also hosts programming for adults with cancer and families coping with sickle cell anemia. The Camp Good Days’ Headquarters & Volunteer Training Center is located in Mendon, NY. Camp Good Days also maintains offices in Buffalo and Syracuse, NY.
