Students in the Environmental Club at Prince Edward Collegiate Institute are holding an electronics waste fundraiser. This event will be a fundraiser for Loyalist Humane Society, and provides a safe way for community members to dispose of electronics.
DATE: Saturday, October 19, 2013
LOCATION: Back of Prince Edward Collegiate Institute, 41 Barker Street, Picton
Community members are invited to drop off unwanted, outdated or broken electronics waste for free.
Examples of electronic waste items
- Televisions and computer monitors, including cathode ray tube (CRT), rear projection and all flat panel technologies, such as LCD, Plasma, LED
- Professional display devices
- Desktop and portable computers, such as laptops, notebooks, net-books, tablets
- After-market vehicle audio and video devices
- AM/FM radios
- Answering machines that use cassette-based or digital recording technologies
- Cordless telephones with an electrical base station/handset cradle for battery charging and wire-line network connection
- Desktop multi-function devices
- Desktop printers
- Desktop printing, copying and multi-functional devices
- Digital picture frames
- Digital projectors
- Digital video disk (DVD) players and recorders
- Fax machines
- Handheld printers, such as calculators with printing capabilities or label makers
- Hard drives
- Home stereo amplifiers and home stereo systems
- Home theaters-in-a-box, which includes home theater image audio and video equipment and speakers
- Keyboards
- Computer mice
- Modems
- Optical drives
- Point of sale (POS) receipt printers
- Scanners
- Stereo speakers and computer speakers
- Turntables, record Players and gramophones
- Typewriters powered by an AC power plug or by internal battery unit
- Video cassette players (VCRs) and/or video projectors
- VoIP phones
- Wire line telephones, including rotary and touch-tone technologies
- Floor standing printers
- Floor standing photocopiers
For more information, please contact:
Kerry Donnell, Communications Officer, 613-966-1170 or 1 800 267-4350, extension 2354, [email protected]