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GEEP Ecosys Inc. helps keep students from dropping out through their engagement with the Réseau québécois des CFER

May 12, 2009

MONTREAL, May 12 /CNW Telbec/ – GEEP Ecosys Inc. joins forces with the Réseau québécois des Centres de formation en entreprise et récupération (CFER) in order to motivate young students to persevere within the educational frame while contributing to the protection of the environment.

The CFER are schools with integrated companies which target young Quebecers aged between 15 and 18 years old, who are challenged with learning difficulties in school. While receiving training with respect to the recovery and recycling of obsolete technology equipment, those students are enrolled in an educational program combining traditional teaching methods with a professional integration curriculum. This program gives them access to a certificate.

GEEP Ecosys Inc. plays a major role in this initiative developed by le Réseau québécois des CFER. GEEP provides them with viable, ecological and commercial options for their end-of-life products. In doing so, the company enables these non-profit organizations to maximize their revenues. As part of their training, the students will participate in the sorting out and disassembly of equipment. GEEP Ecosys Inc. will, in its turn, complete the process by managing efficiently and ecologically the end-of-life technology.

Additionally, GEEP Ecosys Inc. will provide certain CFER students at the end of their training, with the possibility of experiencing a supervised industrial internship designed to receive hands-on experience and put classroom theory into practice. This will facilitate their introduction to the job market and enhance their knowledge with regards to sustainable development.

“These students represent our promising youth and it is our responsibility to provide them with the necessary tools so they can become both professional autonomous and engaged citizens who are conscious that their quality-life also depends on their environment,” confirms Bruce Hartley, Vice President of GEEP Ecosys Inc.

Such a partnership enables GEEP Ecosys Inc. to significantly expand its network of e-colleX point of collection for technology equipment in Quebec in light of an upcoming provincial regulation on this matter.

About GEEP Ecosys Inc.

GEEP Ecosys Inc. (www.geepecosys.com), associated to the GEEP Group, is a company specialized in the end of life cycle management of technology related assets, which on one hand provides reverse logistics, detailed audit reporting, data security and refurbishing and on the other hand provides environmentally friendly recycling solutions. GEEP has partners in the industrial, institutional, commercial and domestic sectors in order to provide a sound commercial and green management for the end-of-life phase of technological assets. A leader in the industry, GEEP already owns more than 24 e-colleX e-waste collection sites, as well as six service centers in Canada of which two are e-waste recycling plants – one in Barrie, Ontario and the other in Edmonton, Alberta. These plants follow the effective and environmentally friendly end-of-life solution developed by GEEP.

GEEP has developed a global presence in order to service both international and local clients. GEEP focuses on sustainable development while ensuring the health and safety of its workers.

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Barrie, ON Canada. June 2nd, 2008

The formation of GEEP Costa Rica continues GEEP’s creation of a global solution provider for electronic recycling and recovery.

Alfred Hambsch, President of the GEEP (Global Electric Electronic Processing) has today announced the formation of a new partnership and processing facility plant for the recovery of recyclable materials from end of life electric and electronic devices as well as ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Geep Costa Rica LLC and Geep Costa Rica SRL of the Republic of Costa Rica have been established to acquire a part of the operating business and assets of Fortech which has been serving Costa Rica and region for the past ten years.

As a result of this undertaking Geep Costa Rica SRL will now be able to service Central America and the Caribbean region from Costa Rica and thereby assist in the Greening of our Plant by recycling all electric and electronic products through our North American network of Geep outlets and processing plants.

This region will benefit from our Technology Change Management (TCM) services which have been provided to large organizations for over 20 years. From the banking industry to the Fortune 1000’s companies, who require certified audit reports that tracks all asset information, the proprietary TCM solution provided by the Geep companies facilitates tracking of assets down to the serial number and guarantees all personal data has been sanitized appropriately.

Geep and its’ new Costa Rica SRL is committed to growth and development of a global footprint to service both international and local clients. Geep continues to invest in Research and Development to improve separation technologies thereby maintaining its leadership role in this rapidly developing industry. Geep and Geep Costa Rica will focus on environmental sustainability while ensuring the health and safety of its workers.

E Scrap or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is the fastest growing waste stream in the world today. Collectively, there are over 1 Billion computers in use and 100,000 of these are scrapped every day in America alone. Add to this the mobile phones, electrical gadgets and games, TV’s and monitors plus all the other electrical items from washing machines to toasters used in a modern home and it can be easily understood why specialist recycling techniques are urgently needed to treat this enormous waste stream.

GEEP has already developed into a major player in the Global market operating state of the art plants in Barrie and Toronto, Ontario, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Montreal Quebec, Raleigh Durham, North Carolina and Dallas, Texas. GEEP has several more projects well advanced including affiliations in Europe, and Asia.

GEEP Costa Rica

25m sur y 75m oeste del Restaurante el Quijongo Tejar, Cartago, Costa Rica
506-2573-8634 (Bus)

Contacts:

Guillermo Pereira – General Manager
gpereira@geepglobal.com

Adalberto Gallardo
agallardo@geepglobal.com

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http://www.newsobserver.com/

By Wade Rawlins, Staff Writer
Published: Sep 21, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Sep 21, 2006 05:34 AM

Shredder holds future for recycling

A Bobcat tractor scooped a load of computers, office telephones and keyboards off a factory floor at Research Triangle Park and dumped them onto a conveyor belt.

Up they inched into a 22-foot-tall industrial shredder, where a huge chain with links bigger than basketballs smashed the electronics into shards of metal and plastic about four inches long. A second process reduced the shards to chips the size of fine gravel.

With the wave of his hand, Johnnie Cox, operations manager at Global Electric Electronic Processing Inc., initiated a new era in electronic recycling in the Triangle.

The company is part of a new breed of sophisticated scrap dealers that specialize in recycling electronic components and ensuring that sensitive information doesn’t end up in someone else’s hands. Hard drives hold that stuff forever, so when computers wear out, businesses such as banks and medical offices can’t simply junk the machines.

Now they can shred them.

GEEP, part of Barrie Metals Group based in Ontario, Canada, has invested about $4 million in the shredder and hammer mill. The investment will greatly increase the amount of electronics GEEP can recycle to more than 24 tons a day, and it plans to invest in converting plastic into diesel fuel.

GEEP charges companies between 25 and 35 cents per pound for smashing computers to splinters, said Dan Roe, general manager of GEEP.

With the new machinery and greater processing capacity, the company plans to start accepting electronics from the public in coming months and to compete for local government contracts for electronics recycling.

“The GEEP investment is quite a remarkable thing for North Carolina,” said Scott Mouw, state recycling coordinator. “Shredders of this size and magnitude are not widespread in the U.S. For us to get one here is quite a coup.”

America’s love affair with electronics has created mountains of e-waste as new and better gadgets replace older models. The obsolete computers, fax machines and televisions pose new challenges to keep them out of landfills, where they can leak lead, cadmium, mercury and other harmful metals.

“People are realizing we don’t need to stick that stuff in the ground for our grandchildren to worry about,” Roe said. “In the next five years, electronics recycling will be one of the fastest-growing industries in the country. Anybody you talk to has a computer in the attic they don’t know what to do with.”

The recycling should help reduce the volume of e-waste going into landfills, and in time provide a new outlet to the public to dispose of computers.

Triangle residents tossed out more than 1.3 million pounds of electronics last year, county landfill collection records show. Much of that material was recycled in Wake, Durham and Orange counties, which pay recycling companies to haul off the materials. But most counties in the state do not have permanent electronics recycling programs.

Nationally, about 2.5 million tons of consumer electronics are thrown out a year, and only about 10 percent of that gets recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency estimates that nearly 250 million personal computers will become obsolete in the next 5 years.

And that’s just computers. Add in 128 million cell phones that are retired a year, along with untold millions of other electronic gizmos, and the mountain of e-trash grows.

About 400 companies in the United States recycle electronics, according to the trade group International Association of Electronics Recyclers. Many computer and cell phone manufacturers also operate recycling programs.

Business is evolving

Since coming to the Triangle in 2002, GEEP’s main income has been handling discarded electronics from high-tech companies in Research Triangle Park. Heaps of disassembled computers and plastic computer cases cover the plant floor.

The plant recycles electronics from about 30 companies, Roe said, with some electronics shipped from other states.

Some of the businesses, such as banks and health services companies, have sensitive financial information on computers, and they want the electronics shredded as though they were paper files.

Until now, 20 workers at GEEP disassembled computers and other electronics by hand, to recover materials such as steel, copper and aluminum. They processed about 3,500 pounds a day — just a fraction of what the shredder will do. Then the electronics were shipped to the company’s Canadian headquarters for disassembly and shredding.

With the new machinery, the company has added 12 employees.

The recovered steel, copper, aluminum and glass are resold as raw materials to manufacturers to use in making new products.

Mixed plastics are among the most difficult materials to resell. Within a year, GEEP plans to start installing a facility to convert recycled mixed plastic into diesel fuel. Roe expects the company will increase to about 100 employees when it starts producing diesel fuel.

“We really should have an impact,” Roe said.

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MRC Elects GEEP Exec to Board of Directors

The Michigan Recycling Coalition has elected Jack Iwema, GM of GEEP Michigan, Warren, Mich., to its board of directors. Iwema has been involved in the environmental services sector for 35 years.

GEEP Michigan is the Midwest affiliate of GEEP Global, which is headquartered in Barrie, Ontario. GEEP recycles electronic waste, wire & cable into commodities with a zero landfill objective.

The appointment reflects the growing concern for proper management of electronic waste in Michigan.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

http://www.recyclingtoday.com/news/news.asp?ID=15349

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GEEP Electric and Electronic Waste Recycling Facility

The Global Electric and Electronic Processing Inc. (GEEP) recycling facility is the newest addition to the Edmonton Waste Management Centre.

Using cutting edge processes and equipment, the 45,000 square foot facility is expected to process 30,000 tonnes per year of old computers, televisions, and a wide range of electrical and electronic waste materials for recycling.

Processes and equipment used at the state of the art facility include:

• Centrifugal Separation
• Plastics Shredder
• CRT Processing
• Chain Shredder
• De-Reeler
• Baler

The facility is built and operated by GEEP Alberta Inc – a subsidiary of GEEP Inc, an international e-waste recycler based in Barrie Ontario. It is the first e-waste recycling facility to be built by GEEP Inc in western Canada.

GEEP is a registered processor under Alberta’s electronics program which is administered by Alberta Recycling Management Authority.

What can be recycled at GEEP?:

• small kitchen appliances
• audio and video equipment and televisions
• personal care appliances (hair dryers, shavers, etc. )
• other electrical household tools (vacuums, irons, floor polishers)
• electrical power tools
• telecommunications equipment – telephones, cell phones
• computer and home office equipment
• computer components
• photocopiers, fax machines and similar office electronics
• industrial electrical tools
• specialty equipment containing electrical motors, switches and other components with material value

A worker disassembles a computer monitor at the new GEEP electronic and electric waste recycling facility.

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