A pilot program will allow residents of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to recycle over 500 additional products. | ti1993/Shutterstock
Canada’s Northwest Territories will expand the list of items accepted in its electronics recycling program, as part of a two-year pilot project.
The Welland, Ontario site will create as many as 10 jobs. | Courtesy of eCycle Solutions
Canadian e-scrap and ITAD company eCycle Solutions has opened a recycling location in Welland, Ontario, close to Niagara Falls.
A wide range of electronic devices have been recently added to EPR programs in Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island. | BluIz60 / Shutterstock
A host of additional device types have been added to the electronics recycling programs in two of Canada’s Atlantic provinces.
Employees outside the newly acquired processing facility in Costa Rica. | Courtesy of Quantum Lifecycle Partners
One of Canada’s largest e-scrap processors has made the leap to Latin America.
Ontario e-scrap firm eCycle Solutions recently announced it acquired GreenGo Recycling Depot, a metals recycling company. | kan_chana/Shutterstock
The purchase of a metals and e-scrap company will help eCycle Solutions boost its scrap electronics collection in Ontario.
BoMET is one of a number of North American companies that saw that opportunity and are investing to expand their e-plastics processing capacity. | Courtesy of BoMET Polymer Solutions
BoMET Polymer Solutions is actively sourcing e-plastics from electronics recycling firms for the company’s Ontario processing facility, where it produces pellets and regrind for sale to manufacturers.
Because the U.S. is not a party to the Basel Convention, exports to the 180-plus countries that are parties to the convention will be more complicated, or may even be prohibited by local laws. | AnkaFed/Shutterstock
The U.S. government has made public an agreement with Canada to continue shipments of scrap plastic, including e-plastics, despite global regulations tightening next year. Environmental advocates are troubled by the deal.
EPRA helps prevent electronics from ending up in landfills by providing Canadian businesses and citizens of Ontario access to secure and convenient electronics recycling options through over 2,500 drop-off locations. | cate_89/Shutterstock
Nokia and Greener Acres Canada are partnering to use over 48,000 tons of e-scrap in manufacturing “smart” utility poles. | vladdon/Shutterstock
A partnership between a wireless network provider and electronics processor will use end-of-life devices to produce new “smart” utility poles.
Apple alleges its damages total $30 million Canadian, deriving from lost profits from gray-markets sales and injury to Apple’s brand image and trademarks. | IRENE COLL INGLES/Shutterstock
Apple claims GEEP Canada employees hid Apple devices out of view of an e-scrap facility’s cameras, mislabeled devices as “copper bearings” for outbound shipping, and then received kickbacks for illegally reselling them.