Keep toxins out of landfill sites Electronic equipment contains toxic
materials like barium, beryllium, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, mercury,
and phosphorus that can leach into groundwater from landfill sites. Many garbage
programs will not accept electronic equipment, even at their hazardous waste
depots. Recycling with 
will save the environment from toxins and comply with municipal, provincial, and
federal regulations regarding disposal.
Limit your liability Canada signed the Basel Convention on the
Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
that came into force in 1992. The Basel Convention strictly controls the
export of many types of hazardous waste, including electronics. A company or individual may be held responsible for
improper disposal if equipment with distinguishing features (logo, company name,
company data, personal data) is disposed of incorrectly. Some companies'
equipment has ended up littering riverbanks in China. Imagine that negative
publicity.
Marital harmony Save your marriage by getting rid of equipment that is gathering
dust, taking up space, and making your spouse irate.
Maintain privacy and security Hard drives often contain proprietary,
confidential, or otherwise private data. Even formatting the drive does not make
the data unreadable.
offers an optional service (for a fee) that destroys hard drives using physical
destruction of the hard drive itself. Optionally, you could drill one or several
holes through the hard drive using a drill bit designed for metals.
Conserve resources Some resources are becoming increasingly scarce. There are
estimates that the world's supply of copper is insufficient to meet the needs of
telecommunications wiring in the near future. Some resources, like aluminum, are
cheaper and more efficient to recycle than to mine and refine. This saves money,
energy, and the environment. Recycling with
will reclaim resources like copper, aluminum, steel, gold, and platinum.
Free up storage space Old equipment takes up valuable storage space. Assuming
that a computer monitor takes up approximately three square feet, in an office
where the rent is $20 per square foot, this adds up to a whopping $60 per year
just to store something that will never be used again. Recycling with
frees up valuable storage space that can be used more productively.
We provide
secure, environmentally-sound, and Ontario-based processing of your waste
electronics, small appliances, and "white goods". We have partnered with a
certified Ontario Electronic Stewardship processor,
MIDA RPM of Stoney Creek (near Hamilton).
MIDA RPM shreds your waste and separates the
various types of metals so they can be used to make new products. Some items
(primarily loose steel, aluminum, and sealed lead acide batteries) are locally-processed through
Glenview Iron and Metal in Smiths Falls.
