Recycling Vendors
eCycle
- Unit 103 8899 Charles Street
- Chilliwack, BC V2P 4V6
- Phone: 604-795-2677
- Toll Free: 1-888-945-2611
- Fax: 604-795-2678
- WHAT: keyboards, mice, printers, scanners, plastic
Hallmark
- 1016 Dale Lane
- Mt. Vernon, WA 98273
- Toll Free: 1-800-255-1895
- Phone: 360-428-5880
- Fax: 360-424-8118
- WHAT: Processors, hard drive controller cards, motherboards, misc cards
Merlin Plastics
- 109 - 917 Cliveden Ave
- Delta, BC
- V3M 5R6
- 604-522-6799
- What: CDs and DVDs
North Star Metal Recycling
- 1170 Powell St.
- Vancouver, BC V6A 1J3
- Contact Phil
- Phone: 604-254-2734
- Fax: 604-569-1205
- WHAT:
- Aluminum
- Source(s): heatsinks, some towers are made of it, certain components of Macs
- Copper
- Source(s): heatsinks, electrical cables, transformers (found in heatsink fan casings, wall warts and adapters)
- Dirty Aluminum
- Source(s): crushed hard drives
- Lead
- Source(s): batteries from Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), car batteries
- Steel
- Source(s): screws, server racks
RBRC
(Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation)
- http://www.rbrc.org/call2recycle/
- CDN 1-888-224-9764
We don't actually contact RBRC, we just need to get the filled boxes into the hand of a Purolator person. All material ships to Fort Erie, ON and then to a company in PN called Inmetco. Some cell phones are refurb and sold in the USA with proceeds going to charity.
- How: Boxen come with bags. One battery per bag. If battery is too big for the bag, tape up the end of the terminal.
- What: Portable rechargeable batteries, including laptop batteries, cell phones
- What not: UPS batteries
Urban Impact
- Head Office & Richmond Plant
- 15360 Knox Way
- Richmond, BC V6V 3A6
- Phone: 604-273-0089
- Toll Free: 855-214-2613
WHAT: Anything that comes from a tree (paper, cardboard, etc)