Lenovo Joins Electronics Product Stewardship Canada

Lenovo is the world's third-largest personal computing company. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division, the company employs 19,000 people worldwide and develops, manufactures and markets technology products including ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre PCs, and ThinkVision monitors.

"Lenovo will be a leader in environmental affairs throughout all of our business activities, from operations to the design and use of our technology," Heather Ross, president and general manager of Lenovo Canada, said. "At Lenovo, environmental concerns will continue to be top priority.”

Eighteen consumer electronics and information technology companies currently comprise EPSC’s membership.

EPSC's President and CEO David Betts said, “We are encouraged that Lenovo has now joined our organization as we continue to work through these next critical stages to develop sustainable solutions for electronic waste in Canada."

The  Electro-Federation Canada, the Information Technology Association of Canada and leading consumer electronics and information technology manufacturers formed the EPSC in 2003. Governed by a board of directors, its current members include: Apple Canada Inc., Brother International Corporation (Canada) Ltd., Canon Canada Inc., Dell Canada, Epson Canada Ltd., Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co., Hitachi Canada Ltd., IBM Canada Ltd., Lenovo (Canada) Inc., Lexmark Canada Inc., LG Electronics Canada, Microsoft Canada Co., Panasonic Canada Inc., Samsung Electronics Canada Inc., Sharp Electronics of Canada Ltd., Sony of Canada Ltd., Thomson Multimedia Ltd. and Toshiba of Canada Ltd.