saskatchewan waste electronic equipment program. saskatchewan: 1,000,000 people 6.5% of canada –...
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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
• 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)
SWEEP: the Public View
In the beginning . . .
• Industry begins discussion in March 2003
• EPSC Stewardship plan approved May 2006
• SWEEP Incorporated July 2006• SWEEP launched February
2007
Structure of SWEEP SWEEP Board of Directors
Multi Stakeholder-Electronics industryRetailersMunicipal Government
Executive DirectorProgram coordination
Communications•Point of Sale consumer material•Public relations•Paid advertising
ProcessingTV’s and DisplaysCPU’s and Printers
Collection SystemCollection depotsTransportation and consolidation
Program Manager•Accounting•Member relations•Program coordination•Member and recycler auditing
The SARCAN Collection System
COLLECTION SYSTEM
• Collect electronics province-wide, year round at 68 depots.
• Also collection days at 3 more depots.
• Carts help customers move larger units.
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.
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
Dismantling Operations
Estevan Diversified Services
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
Processing of Monitors & TVs
eCycle Solutions – Airdrie, Alberta
Program Manager
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
Product Care - Role
• Member relations – 593 ‘first sellers’
• Collect EHF
• Manage auditing: members, processors, end users
• Administration – accounting, track collection and processing
Communications
• media relations• baseline survey • transit advertising campaign in two cities• stakeholder communication programs
Transit advertising:
• 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 …
Challenges
Program Administration
• Harmonization issues with programs in other jurisdictions– Member audits– Recycler audits– Product Definitions
• Moving to Phase 2 of equipment collected
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
Joan Meyer, Executive DirectorSWEEPTelephone – 306-774-7661Email – [email protected] - www.sweepit.ca
Mark Kurschner, PresidentProduct Care Association604 592 2972 x [email protected]