Why donate when you can smash_macs_to_pieces

http://apcmag.com/exclusive_photos_apple_smashing_macs_to_pieces.htm
by Dan Warne
EXCLUSIVE | A whistleblower has provided details of how Apple Australia orders Macs be smashed to pieces.
While the digital divide widens, computers and mobile phones fill landfill at home and charities like the Youth for Technology Foundation try their hardest to improve the lives of impoverished Africans communities by introducing computers to help them achieve independence, Apple Computer has been busy getting labourers to smash a rubbish skip full of computers in a Sydney warehouse, many of them in seemingly working order...

It's really nothing unusual for a company to smash trade in goods. It's always been what companies do to that type of stuff with old equipment.
If you think about it that is the first thing that must be done to start the recycling process. It's a long way from Australia to Africa and it might seem to be a good idea to donate them to somebody but donated goods can turn up as trade-ins, whereas if you smash them they certainly won't show up again.
If you think about it, trade-in equipment is/can be a competitor with the new goods that a company is trying to sell.

AG