At this point Bill I've seen nothing to indicate the program has changed in the manner you described. One of the parters we use in Waterloo, Eco-Tech, also still seems to be accepting eWaste at no charge. We recently (yesterday) took a large amount of stuff their way (including systems, printers and CRT monitors) and there was no difference/fee to drop off.<br>
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The gentlemen indicated this has hit many firms, but Best Buy, he<br>
believes, is still accepting material for recycling.<br></blockquote><div><br>It sounds to me that the person at Canada Computers didn't know what the heck they were talking about and perhaps they got fleeced by some other non-OES agency. I also spoke with a FutureShop employee last week who said he was bringing his old ewaste to Futureshop, so the CC employee may have not been correct on that point either.<br>
<br>Please feel free to bring eWaste down to The Working Centre's computer recycling project. We generally try to only accept computer-related eWaste, but from time to time we've also taken other small electronics (we pass a lot of what we don't use to Eco-Tech in Waterloo). <br>
<br></div></div>I know that the first year the OES did not meet the government mandated targets, in fact they were barely at half. Last year however things turned around a lot and the program has gained a lot of ground and support.<br>
<br>We generally don't work with Best Buy or Future Shop so you may want to call these organizations before dropping off there, but last I heard and checked they were still both accepting items. <br><br>The OES web site <a href="http://www.recycleyourelectronics.ca/">http://www.recycleyourelectronics.ca/</a> still lists both Best Buy and Future Shop as local OES drop off sites (along with us and at least half a dozen other sites).<br>
<br>I'll look into this a little further, but at this point I'm quite confident that it's just a misinformed employee or organization.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Charles<br>