SARCAN Expands Electronics Recycling Program

Starting April 1, SARCAN Recycling, the recycling division of the Saskatchewan Association of Rehabilitation Centres (SARC), expanded its program to include more obsolete electronics in its program.

Electronics that SARCAN now accepts include audio equipment, video equipment, cameras and telephones. The inclusion of these products is expected to increase the quantity of electronics accepted by SARCAN Recycling across the province by about 1 million pounds per year.

SARCAN already takes in computers, computer periphery and television sets.

SARCAN has a network of 71 depots throughout the province. Collected electronics are shipped to four processing centers: KIN Enterprises, Prince Albert, SK; the Saskatchewan Abilities Council in Yorkton, SK; Estevan Diversified Services, Estevan, SK; and eCycle Solutions, Airdrie, Alberta.

Saskatchewan is the second province in Canada (after Nova Scotia) to expand its electronics recycling program to include these products. Ontario will be including the same products at the same time as Saskatchewan. British Columbia follow suit on July 1.

Since SARCAN began the program about three years ago, they have diverted more than 13 million pounds of obsolete electronics.