Responding to a challenge from a popular Quebec television program, La Vie en Vert (The Green Life), a public-private coalition announced that it will take the test to come up with a way to divert over 22,000 tons of e-scrap annually from the province.

One of the bodies of water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes was a dumping ground for an unscrupulous e-scrap processor, according to an ongoing criminal case in Minnesota.

Government officials in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Nova Scotia have taken steps toward implementing e-scrap recycling programs.