Recycle your electronic waste in Toronto
In her book Ecoholic, Adria Vasil reports that Canadians dump more than 272,000 tons of e-waste each year, and that consumer electronics contribute 40 percent of all the lead found in landfills. Those cell phones, TVs, VCRs, monitors, computers and other pieces of equipment just aren't ordinary garbage. They contain toxins such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium and beryllium that pollute soil and water. Even worse is the toxic trade, which is happening on a global scale and has sprung up to cope with escalating volumes of the stuff. Thousands of tons of e-waste gets shipped abroad, most of it illegally, to countries such as China, Nigeria, India and Pakistan, where it piles up, poisoning the residents and the environment. So before you take your timed-out electronics to the curb, get to know the options for e-waste recycling.
Excepted from article on greenlivingonline.com
Our retail partner Ecoexistence is a drop off location for common electronics that will be recycled by Toronto based Inorganic Market. They recycle e-waste instead of disposing to landfill.
The following items are accepted for collection at Ecoexistence:
Desktops, Laptops, Printers and Scanners, Cell phones, Routers (Wired & Wireless), Digital Cameras, Video Game Consoles, Backup Power Supplies (UPS), Monitors (LCD, CRT), ipods and MP3 players, keyboards and mice, wire and cables, fax machines, Speakers, Steroes and receivers, non-leaking batteries.