E-waste event coming up this weekend

Do you have old computers, telephones or televisions at home or work?

If so, mark your calendar and plan to drop them off for recycling.

Rainbow District School Board is teaming up with eCycle Solutions to help citizens recycle their e-waste.

Dropoff depots will be set up in the parking lots at three schools in the Sudbury area April 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Lockerby Composite
School, 1391 Ramsey View Rd. in Sudbury; Confederation Secondary School, 1918 Main St., in Val Caron; Carl A. Nesbitt Public School, 1241 Roy St. in New Sudbury; and Lively District Secondary School, 265 Fifth Ave. in Lively.

There will also be a dropoff depot at Espanola High School, 147 Spruce St. in Espanola, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

"Last year, Rainbow District School Board collected 75,412 pounds (34,206 kilograms) of electronic equipment at four community e-waste events held during Earth Month,” director of education Norm Blaseg said, in a press release.

“We hope to surpass this amount and invite everyone in the community to join with us in diverting waste from local landfill sites.”

The following items can be recycled:
Computers, laptops, netbooks, tablets, iPads, e-Readers, mice, keyboards, webcams, printers, scanners, photocopiers, phones and fax machines (cordless, touchtone, rotary included), projectors (includes overhead), monitors, televisions (CRT, LCD, plasma, rear projection, wooden console), networking products (routers, switches, patch cables, wall mounts, network connectors, antennas, circuit boards, memory chips, etc), cellphones, digital cameras, bluetooths and PDAs, security surveillance equipment (home and commercial systems), media players (iPod, MP3, CD and VHS), game systems and controllers, Leap Frog, Vtech (games included), radios, speakers, amplifiers, electronic music equipment, record players, cassette players, alarm clocks, cables (any kind), battery backups, GPS with accessories, external storage media devices (external hard drives, USB drives, floppy disks, CD/DVD/Blue Ray), power tools, commercial and industrial electronic equipment.

eCycle Solutions is guaranteeing 100-per-cent data destruction for all devices containing personal information.

Do not bring hazardous waste, furniture, appliances, TV stands or other non-electronic waste.

For more information, phone Brett Belcher at 705-331-2099 or email [email protected].

Posted by Arron Pickard