recycling

What and Where to Recycle in the Lower Mainland

By: Sheryl on January 27, 2012 — 

There's a lot more recycling going on these days, and it's difficult to know who takes what.  Check out the list below and be amazed by what you can recycle!

Computer Hardware/Peripherals Recycling
Once you've had your fill of the blue screen of death or your machine spontaneously rebooting and have explored all the avenues of updating/repairing, there are a lot of local alternatives to trashing your hardware. Read more »

Greening Your Home Office

By: Sheryl on June 9, 2011 — 

As you may have gathered from my various posts about recycling, at ISI we feel it's our responsibility to do what we can to decrease our environmental impact.  For our home office, this includes the following items which fit quite naturally in with our personal lives:

a) composting
b) recycling
c) reducing energy consumption
d) decreasing paper consumption
e) planting a tree Read more »

BCMEX - New way to exchange electronics

By: Sheryl on February 1, 2011 — 

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Recycle Ink/Toner Cartridges

By: Sheryl on September 22, 2010 — 

Ink -  what is it good for?  Documents, photos, even printing on fabric.  We use a lot of this stuff and we're left with a lot of empty cartridges which are made of 40% plastic, 40% metal, rubber, paper foam and toner.  We make choices about what to do - refill, recycle or throw cartridges away.  Just to make the last option less appealing, below are some places in the Lower Mainland where you can recycle cartridges.  Read more »

Recycle CDs and DVDs

By: Sheryl on August 25, 2010 — 

CDs and DVDs can be recycled! Cool, huh? I didn't know this until I came across the information by accident. While there's no vouching for the safety of recycling backup discs of your documents when you drop them in a store's communal bin, this is a great option for other coasters or discs that are scratched beyond repair. Read more »

Phone Battery Recycling

By: Sheryl on August 19, 2010 — 

Cell Phone Batteries

It's a reality - at some point the old cell phone battery just isn't charging anymore.  Rather than throwing it in the trash and introducing heavy metals and pollutants into the environment, below is a short list of locations which accept cell phone batteries.  This list is by no means complete, as there are a multitude of excellent options available in the community for recycling cell and cordless phone batteries. Read more »

Recycling Compact Fluorescent Lights & Tubes

By: Sheryl on August 16, 2010 — 

There has been strong encouragement to use Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) as an alternative to incandescent lights due to energy savings.

CFLs contain traces of mercury and, as such, are hazardous when broken. This article details instructions on how to carefully clean up a broken CFL and provides information on how bulbs are safely recycled. Read more »

Rechargeable and Alkaline Battery Recycling

By: Sheryl on August 12, 2010 — 

There are many reasons to recycle batteries rather than throwing them in the garbage but the most common is to avoid lead, corrosive acids and heavy metals contained in batteries from polluting the environment after these substances enter through groundwater, surface water or rain (source: http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/44363.aspx).

Recycling alkaline and rechargeable batteries is easier than ever, with many dropoff locations in every city.  Read more »

Computer Hardware Recycling

By: Sheryl on July 30, 2010 — 

ISI has always believed strongly in recycling computer hardware, from re-using RAM to boost the speed of older machines to building new computers out of scrap parts.  That said, at some point systems and parts pass their expiry date.  Rather than contributing to the landfill, free options are available for recycling computer hardware and peripherals, either by donating to charity or via electronic waste programs.  Below is a short list of some recycling options for the Lower Mainland: Read more »

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