Kelowna home owners available e-waste services

B.C.’s e-waste recycling program expanded July 1 to include old portable electronics: portable players such as CD and DVD players and radios and non-cellular telephones free of charge.

Since 2007, people have been able to drop off their old computers and TV sets at recycling depots around the province for free. Phase 2 of the e-waste program started July 1, and Encorp Pacific is gearing up for a 20-to 30-per-cent jump in recyclables. Encorp has more than 100 Return-It depots around the province.

The e-waste recycling program has already collected 34,000 metric tonnes of e-waste since 2007, diverting it from the landfill. And the amount collected is expected to rise by 20 to 30 per cent. This year, an extra two million kilograms of electronics will be collected.

Five recycling processors in B.C. break the electronics down into their commodities, either here, elsewhere in Canada or in another approved Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member, such as the U.S. or Belgium. The products do not to go to the developing world. About 95 per cent of an electronic product gets recycled. Even the other five per cent “slag” can be used as an additive in concrete. All the materials are used and recycled in the program.

For example, when Canada’s Olympians got their medals during the 2010 Games, they were partly made from recycled electronics.

The program is fully funded by environmental handling fees charged on new electronics and ultimately, aiming for a “closed-loop” economy, where consumed items can be recycled back into manufacturing sustainable new products.

(Source: excerpts from Vancouver Province article "E-Waste makes haste in BC")


KELOWNA RETURN-IT LOCATIONS & SERVICES include:

Give the following locations a call first to confirm what service they provide recycling!

Kelowna Boucherie Self Storage & Bottle
2711 Kyle Road
Ph: 250-769-7122
Oct-May: Mon-Sat 8:30am-5pm
June-Sept: Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm

Kelowna Columbia Bottle Depot (Central)
1988 Kirschner Road
Ph: 250-763-2500
Daily 8am-5pm

Kelowna Columbia Bottle Depot (Rutland)
680 Dease Road
Ph: 250-765-9115
Mon-Fri 8:00am-5:00pm,
Sat-Sun 8:00am-4:00pm

Kelowna Columbia Bottle Depot - St. Paul
1314 St. Paul Street
Ph: 250-763-2554
Daily 8am-5pm

Kelowna The Battery Doctors
1972 Windsor Road
Ph: 250-860-2866
Mon-Fri 9am-4pm,
Sat 9am-3pm


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