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Saskatchewan Waste Electronic Equipment Program

Saskatchewan Waste Electronic Equipment Program Saskatchewan: 1,000,000 people 6.5% of Canada – 651,000 sq km 15% of population over age 65 Median age 36.7 SWEEP – Responsible Recycling for: Computers Laptops Printers Peripherals TVs SWEEP: the Public View

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Saskatchewan Waste Electronic Equipment Program

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  1. Saskatchewan Waste Electronic Equipment Program

  2. Saskatchewan: 1,000,000 people 6.5% of Canada – 651,000 sq km 15% of population over age 65 Median age 36.7

  3. SWEEP – Responsible Recycling for: Computers Laptops Printers Peripherals TVs

  4. SWEEP: the Public View • Consumers bring end-of-life electronics to any SARCAN depot (no charge) • Consumers pay an Environmental Handling Fee (EHF) when buying new stuff: • Desktop Computers - $10; Portable Computers - $5; Monitors - $12; Desktop Printers - $8; • Televisions - $15; $25; $30; $45 (set by screen size)

  5. In the beginning . . . • Industry begins discussion in March 2003 • EPSC Stewardship plan approved May 2006 • SWEEP Incorporated July 2006 • SWEEP launched February 2007

  6. Structure of SWEEP

  7. The SARCAN Collection System

  8. COLLECTION SYSTEM • Collect electronics province-wide, year round at 68 depots. • Also collection days at 3 more depots. • Carts help customers move larger units.

  9. COLLECTION SYSTEM • Depots count units and separate them into two streams: • Monitors and TVs are shrink wrapped onto pallets. • All other units are placed into fold-down plastic tubskids.

  10. COLLECTION SYSTEM • Pallets and tubskids are shipped to our two Processing Plants in Saskatoon and Regina. • Weighed, recorded and put onto one of two trailers: • Pallets  eCycle • Tubskids  Registered dismantling sites

  11. Estevan Diversified Services Dismantling Operations

  12. Dismantling Operations • Dismantling operations at three SARC Member Agencies: • KIN Enterprises Inc., Prince Albert • Saskatchewan Abilities Council, Yorkton • Estevan Diversified Services • Each use one supervisor and a staff of 6 dismantling technicians • Paid a fixed rate for dismantling based on the weight of salvage returned

  13. Processing of Monitors & TVs eCycle Solutions – Airdrie, Alberta

  14. Program Manager

  15. About Product Care • a multi-provincial industry organization for paint/HHW: BC, AB, SK & NS • Product Care serves SWEEP as Program Manager, achieves administrative synergies with other “member” programs

  16. Product Care - Role • Member relations – 593 ‘first sellers’ • Collect EHF • Manage auditing: members, processors, end users • Administration – accounting, track collection and processing

  17. Communications

  18. media relations • baseline survey • transit advertising campaign in two cities • stakeholder communication programs

  19. Transit advertising:

  20. 3.9 M pounds diverted from landfills 179,487 units collected 79% of population know to take EOLE to one of the 71 SARCAN Depots 45% of population has electronics in storage for disposal 14 months and counting …

  21. Challenges

  22. Program Administration • Harmonization issues with programs in other jurisdictions • Member audits • Recycler audits • Product Definitions • Moving to Phase 2 of equipment collected

  23. Collection and Processing • Bare / broken CRTs • CPUs with mice droppings (hanta virus) • Expanded product approval list • Non-cooperative bulk customers • After-hour product abandonment • Salvage markets not completing the rigorous EPSC Vendor Qualification process

  24. Joan Meyer, Executive Director SWEEP Telephone – 306-774-7661 Email – jmeyer@sweepit.ca Website - www.sweepit.ca Mark Kurschner, President Product Care Association 604 592 2972 x 201 mark@productcare.org www.productcare.org

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