Tyler

I have just read your article and I wanted to correct an inaccuracy in your article.

Encorp Pacific (Canada) is the Program Manager contracted by the Electronic Stewardship Association of BC (ESABC).

We are not, as your article states, a member of ESABC. Members of ESABC are manufacturers or first importers of obligated electronic products under the BC Recycling Regulation.

Both ESABC and Encorp Pacific are non-profit organizations. Encorp Pacific is involved in 2 provincially regulated stewardship programs: Beverage and Electronics. We are the steward for Beverage but a contracted program manager for electronics.

Under the BC Recycling Regulation, Encorp Pacific accepts TVs, computer monitors, computers (CPUs), scanners, desktop printers, fax machines and computer peripherals such as mice and keyboards as obligated products. These products can be dropped off free of charge for recycling at our Return It Electronics ™ collection sites for recycling.

New products are charged an Environmental Handling Fee (EHF) to cover the cost of recycling. These above products can be recycled regardless of age or whether the original manufacturer is still in business. Proper recycling costs money.

There are many recyclers or re-use companies out there that don’t charge and broker materials and send end of life electronics to developing nations. Many of these companies cloak themselves under the auspices of re-use only to broker materials internationally for money that end up improperly recycled or disposed.

We are proud of the recycling standards that we have put in place, that track the downstream flow of materials through to the point of final processing or disposition to ensure potentially hazardous components of EOLE are not sent to developing nations for the purpose of recycling and/or disposal.

The recycling standard we operate under, the EPSC’s Recycling Vendor Qualifications Program, has been recognized internationally as holding recyclers to an exemplary environmental standard.

If you would like more information on the methods of recycling and where the products are sent, you can check out our website at http://www.encorp.ca/electronics/productrecycling.

Thanks
Tyler Garnes

Logistics Manager – Electronics
Encorp Pacific (Canada)
http://www.encorp.ca