From Industry News
Quebec private sector to handle e-scrap
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.
Bureau en Gros (Richmond Hill, Ontario),
Le Réseau québécois des CFER (Victoriaville, Quebec), and the provincial agency
RECYC-QUEBEC have together launched Mission zéro déchet électronique
(Mission zero electronic waste). The program will cover both mobile and
standard telephones, personal computers, peripheral devices and personal
digital assistants, all of which can be dropped off free-of-charge at 59
participating Bureau en Gros — as Staples Business Depot (Toronto) is called in
Quebec — locations around the province. For a nominal fee, Bureau en Gros will
download the contents of a customer's hard drive to a CD or DVD.
All equipment will be processed by Le Réseau québécois des CFER, which offers training in various fields of recycling to youth between the ages of 16 and 18. The nine CFER locations that are dedicated to training in end-of-life electronics recycling will handle the disassembling of the electronic equipment.
The program's costs will be subsidized by RECYC-QUEBEC
All equipment will be processed by Le Réseau québécois des CFER, which offers training in various fields of recycling to youth between the ages of 16 and 18. The nine CFER locations that are dedicated to training in end-of-life electronics recycling will handle the disassembling of the electronic equipment.
The program's costs will be subsidized by RECYC-QUEBEC