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Electronics Recycling Program
Taking your old electronics out of the picture. Alberta’s electronics recycling program is helping protect our environment by keeping old TVs and computers out of our landfills, and away from the e-waste stream flowing into developing countries. There are over 300 collections sites across the province where you to take your end-of-life electronics (the majority of which do not charge to accept these items) so they can be recycled in an effective, secure and environmentally safe manner.
Alberta Recycling is constantly working with communities across the province to make it easier for Albertans to round up and recycle their old electronics safely and responsibly.
Environmental responsibility begins at home
Albertans were the first in North America to start recycling their electronics. You can conveniently drop off your electronics at any one of the more than 300 municipal collection sites in the province. This program allows individuals, organizations and corporations to turn in their old computers, computer components and televisions to be recycled in an environmentally sound and safe process.
The electronics collected at municipal collection sites are transported to Alberta’s 6 registered electronics processors, where they are reduced to commodity state (plastics, metals, glass), which are then used by manufacturers to create new products. None of the products processed in Alberta’s electronics recycling program are sent to, or ‘dumped’ into developing countries.
If you have old TVs, computers, monitors or printers, now is the time to bring them in to your municipal collection site. It is the responsible and environmentally sensible thing to do.
For more information on what happens to your electronics after processing, click here.
Protect your personal information
Before dropping off your unwanted electronics at a municipal collection site for recycling, extra precautions should be taken to remove any personal information that might be stored in your computer.
Visual Display Devices
Includes: devices with a television tuner or is a device that can operate both as a computer monitor and television; devices with built-in components necessary to operate as a monitor. Where the computer (CPU) and visual display device are combined in one unit, the fee for each device applies.
Computers (CPU) and servers (rackmount, desktop, floor standing)
The device that is the central processing unit of the computer.
Keyboard, mouse, cables and/or speakers
Printers
Includes desktop and floor standing printers, multi-function printer copiers, printer/fax copier combinations. Environmental fee will not be charged at the time of purchase for handheld devices that have a printing function such as label makers and calculators, or printers which weigh more than 1,000 kilograms.
Laptops & Notebooks
Portable computers that includes the combination of both the CPU, monitor and keyboard all in one package. Only one environmental fee will be charged at the time of purchase.
Tablets
A portable computer with an integrated touch screen display which can connect wirelessly, WiFi and/or via cellular network for purposes of data exchange and transfer. A tablet does not have cellular phone capability.