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Clean North is running a recycling even in Sault Ste Marie a week from saturday.


They are accepting donations of used computer equipment, and are recycling the useless stuff. Reusable stuff is being put up for sale that day.

For people who live near Sault Ste Marie, (Michigan or Ontario) there is a twice a year event, held by Clean North Its called the Bring Out Your Dead, and information on the last event can be found here
It looks like another event is slated to be held early May.

For people who live near Sault Ste Marie, (Michigan or Ontario) there is a twice a year event, held by Clean North Its called the Bring Out Your Dead, and information on the last event can be found here
It looks like another event is slated to be held early May.

In Sault Ste. Marie, ON (Canada), we (Clean North) run a computer recycling event twice per year. We accept old components from the community (businesses, individuals, government) and charge them $1CDN (about 5 cents US) to take it. We get as much running as we can to give to other charities, or use for ourselves (we have an environmental resource room on the main street in town), as well as sell on the day of the event.

Anything else goes on a truck bound for southern Ontario, where we have an arrangement with a recycler to accept our shipment, and reclaim as much of the metal and plastic as possible.

This is the third story I have read about exporting the problem of dealing with this waste, however, those recyclers that we have dealt with in Southern Ontario have been most accomodating about telling us exactly what happens to the materials. At times, we have even had them pay the shipping.

Our last event was in October, and you can read about it on our web site.

In Sault Ste. Marie, ON (Canada), we (Clean North) run a computer recycling event twice per year. We accept old components from the community (businesses, individuals, government) and charge them $1CDN (about 5 cents US) to take it. We get as much running as we can to give to other charities, or use for ourselves (we have an environmental resource room on the main street in town), as well as sell on the day of the event.

Anything else goes on a truck bound for southern Ontario, where we have an arrangement with a recycler to accept our shipment, and reclaim as much of the metal and plastic as possible.

This is the third story I have read about exporting the problem of dealing with this waste, however, those recyclers that we have dealt with in Southern Ontario have been most accomodating about telling us exactly what happens to the materials. At times, we have even had them pay the shipping.

Our last event was in October, and you can read about it on our web site.

See cleannorth.org if you're interested in these things. We get tons from the school board here at every event. They're still trying to get rid of them.

If you want to try to make arrangements to get some from us, I urge you to (we're in boonie-land Canada, though).

-Dan