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GEEP Electric and Electronic Waste Recycling Facility
April 15th, 2012 | 
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Using cutting edge processes and equipment, the 45,000 square foot Global Electric and Electronic Processing Inc. (GEEP) facility processes more than 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 at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre 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
Where can I take my electronic and electric waste for recycling?
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19 Things Your Company Should Be Recycling
These days it seems like every company is trying to go green, and we’ll be the first to back those efforts up. To prove how supportive we are, we decided to bring back our “Green Office Tip of the Week” segment this week to offer up our thoughts on how your company can improve its recycling efforts.
In order to do so, we’ve compiled a list of 19 things that your office can, and should, recycle. Recycling is the easiest way to go green. There are businesses around the country that will take pretty much any material from you, and some of them will even pay you for certain items. If you need help finding a place to recycle any of these materials, check out Earth911.com.
- Light Bulbs
- Batteries
- Computers
- Monitors
- Printers
- Televisions
- Cell Phones
- Newspaper
- Printer Paper
- Cardboard
- Aluminum Cans
- Plastic Bottles
- Glass
- Wood, Bricks & Other Building Materials
- Metal Scrap
- Shipping Styrofoam
- Ink Cartridges
- Tires
- Furniture
How to Set Up Recycling at Your Workplace
- Form a “green team” – Approaching recycling as a team can help ensure the success of your recycling program. A “green team” is a group of employees interested in recycling and helping to set up a program.
- Determine materials you will recycle – Performing a waste audit can help. A waste audit is an inventory of the amount and type of solid waste (trash) produced at a location.
Commonly recycled business items:
- Office paper
- Magazines and catalogs
- Newspaper
- Cardboard
- Aluminum cans
- Plastic bottles
- Toner and ink jet cartridges
- Contact your property manager – Find out if there are any recycling programs in place. Ask them to provide office paper, cardboard, aluminum can and plastic bottle recycling as a service to building tenants. Remind them that recycling can reduce waste disposal costs.
On your own – If your property manager cannot provide recycling, or you are a small business, meet with your green team and decide what materials you want to recycle.
- Contact a recycling company – Interview multiple companies and get price estimates for providing a dumpster and pickup services. Most recycling companies provide rebates on materials collected.
These companies provide recycling pick up services in the Kansas City region. They will provide a dumpster and establish a regular pick up schedule to meet your needs.
- Drop-off Recycling – If pickup services are not an option, another option is to take your recyclables to a drop-off recycling center.
- Coordinate collection – with the recycling service provider, janitorial crew and/or staff. Think about:
- Small bins – You can provide durable recycling containers to each staff person or ask them to use copy paper boxes or something similar at their work stations. Decide what type and size of bin to locate next to printers, fax machines and other machines that generate paper.
- Central bins – Locate large recycling bins in copy rooms or break rooms.
- Collection – Create a regular schedule and determine who will pick up recycling from the small and central bins. It may be staff, janitorial crew or a combination.
- Drop-off recycling – If your staff is using a drop-off collection center, set up a team and schedule for taking recyclables to the center. You may also need to determine a place to store recyclables.
- Communicate all this information to your entire staff and janitorial crew.
- Educate staff
- Distribute fact sheets describing the new recycling program for employees and janitorial staff and post updates on your company’s intranet site.
- Provide bins and collection containers as mentioned above.
- Mark containers with signs labeled by item. It is helpful to use the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol.
Full Article: http://ewastedisposal.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-set-up-recycling-at-your.html
Recycling industry heading for change
Ben Cubby Environment Editor
November 4, 2010
With the speed of of a melting glacier, Australia’s recycling industry is grinding towards its long-promised national scheme for recycling old computers, televisions and mobile phones, as well as bottles and cans.
There were pledges of future legislation and further studies, but few tangible results to report so far, at a meeting of state and federal environment ministers in Sydney yesterday.
The quick action on a national “cash for cans” recycling scheme, flagged by former Environment Minister Peter Garrett as last year’s meeting, will have to wait until next year while a review into its impact on industry is completed.
Legislation to underpin a scheme for recycling electronic waste will not be in place until July next year. The ongoing delays mean up to 200 million electronic items will now go into landfill over the next seven months instead of being recycled.
A scheme for recycling old tyes will be in place by November next year, while legislation for recycling packaging and limiting plastic bag use is now set down for March 2012.
The NSW Environment Minister, Frank Sartor, called for faster action.
“The TV and e-waste strategy is going far too slowly – there is a timetable that’s been proposed but it’s got to be expedited,” Mr Sartor said. “The wheels of COAG move very slowly and they need some WD40.”
Full Article: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/conservation/recycling-industry-heading-for-change-20101104-17fzx.html
The e-Steward Standard is finished.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Basel Action Network is pleased to announce the solution to one of the most serious toxic waste issues of our time:
The e-Stewards Standard for Responsible Recycling and Reuse of Electronic Equipment®
The Standard is the result of long collaboration between the environmental community and leaders in the recycling, auditing, occupational health, data security, and manufacturing industries as well as from the accredited third party certification industry. It is the standard that will be applied in the e-Stewards third party audited, accredited certification for electronics recyclers that will be begin in early 2010.
Two documents are now available:
The complete e-Stewards Standard for Responsible Recycling and Reuse of Electronic Equipment (which contains the entire ISO 14001 standard) that serves as the basis for official certifications. Our use of ISO proprietary language and our licensing of it from ANSI requires a purchase price. To purchase, click here to go to the purchase page, where you will see a “Buy Now” button. Or, send a check for $125 dollars payable to The Basel Action Network, 122 South Jackson Street, Suite 320, Seattle, WA, 98104, along with an email address and we will send you a PDF copy.
An excerpted version of the complete Standard, which contains all the industry-specific e-Stewards performance requirements, but only summarizes the ISO requirements. This version may not be used for the purposes of certification. The purpose of this excerpted document is to provide access to information about the specific e-Stewards requirements that are built into the ISO requirements for an environmental management system. This version is available at no cost and can be freely distributed. Click here to download.
See www.e-Stewards.org for more information:
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http://electronic-recycling.blogspot.com/2009/07/e-steward-standard-is-finished.html
