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Help Protect the Environment… Conserve and Recycle!
As part of Sheridan’s Zero Waste Initiative, Sheridan supports the recycling of electronic waste, or e-waste. E-waste contains hazardous metals, such as lead, cadmium, mercury, which contaminate soil and pollute air and drinking water. Recycling e-waste can divert these hazardous materials from landfills and incinerators. As well, valuable materials in the e-waste, such as aluminium, copper, gold, silver and plastics, can be recovered, and they can be used to make new products. This reduces the demand for extracting new resources and thus avoids energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
So how can you help?
If you have spare electronic items like computers, monitors, TVs, and cell phones at home that you don’t need, first consider donating them to the others in need in the community. If they are broken, try fixing them rather than buying new ones. If your electronics are obsolete and you would like to dispose of them, make sure they are recycled properly.
Sheridan’s annual E-Waste Collection Days will be held next week. You are welcome to bring your e-waste from home and drop them off at any one of the three campus locations as scheduled below. Our e-waste service provider, TechReset will pick up the e-waste collected and make sure they will be recycled sustainably.
Sheridan’s E-Waste Collection Days
HMC Campus: April 9 – 10
Bin Location: A Wing Atrium (near Security Counter)
Trafalgar Campus: April 9 – 11
Bin Location: B Wing Hallway
Davis Campus: April 11 – 12
Bin Location: B Wing Main Entrance (near Registration Desk)
**All campuses: First day starts at 9:30 a.m. and last day closes at 3 p.m.
Acceptable Items:
- Computers and laptops
- Keyboards, mice and computer accessories
- Printers and scanners
- Printer cartridges and toner
- Televisions
- Monitors
- VCRs and DVD players
- Radios, stereos and speakers
- Cameras and video recorders
- Home phones and cell phones
- Electronic batteries
- Cables, cords and computer wires
- Microwave ovens
If you have any questions, please contact the Office for Sustainability at zerowaste@sheridancollege.ca.
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