On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:29 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
What?!?<br>
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Staples, and FutureShop let you drop off any electronic waste any time, without charge, for recycling?<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes. Can't speak for Staples, but Futureshop does that, with a limit of 2 items per customer. I dropped CRT monitors, and old TV, and old computers, and they took them all.<br>
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I've heard of BatteryPlus and The Source taking rechargeable batteries, and Baka cell phones, and the hospital for reading glasses, but never knew Staples / FutureShop took it all.<br></blockquote><div><br>Futureshop has a battery and cell phone recycling thing at the customer service (at least in Waterloo). Did not use it though so don't know if this is for rechargeables or what.<br>
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Without the $10/item charge the dump charges, once, of course, you get it out there.<br>
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There's another local firm, can't remember the name, that will also take it, for a charge.<br>
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Do we know that Staples, FutureShop, etc. actually forwards it to recycling, not just the dump? And that the dump actually recycles it, not just safely disposes of it?<br></blockquote><div><br>Like you, I was surprised to know that Futureshop did that. I thought I was deeply immersed in work or something and missed the announcements. But it seems that it was underadvertized, and coincided with the new recycling fees being added to computers (2.75 per laptop, more for a desktop), which was also underadvertized (if at all).<br>
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