Brockville tuning in to recycling program
Recorder and Times / Ron Zajac / 15 May 2010
[The Leeds and Grenville Technology Centre], a non-profit group designated as the local e-waste collection and consolidation centre by Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES), runs a waste electronics and electrical equipment drop-off site at the former SCI complex, as well as a consolidation site.
Palaisy cited revised figures showing that, between the west-end site's opening in April 2009 and the end of December, it averaged 8,000 kilograms a month of electronic waste collected from local residents, a figure that has grown to 11,400 kilograms a month in the first four months of 2010.
During the first four months of this year, the facility thus saw a 42.5-per-cent increase in volume, said Palaisy.
April 1 saw the launch of the program's second phase, in which the site took in a broader variety of electronic waste, but that increase in eligible materials does not account for the volume increase, said Palaisy.
The expanded list was not in effect in the first three months of the year, and even now it has not fully sunk into public awareness, he said.
