Working in software development has the inevitable side-effect of producing, from time to time, a few cast-off electronics, whether old, obsolete, or broken. Here in the Codesta office, we’ve been dutifully amassing ours on a table by the lunch room, in preparation for the day one of us might have time to haul our e-junk to the only local place promising safe disposals: a city-run collection depot in the Portlands area, way on the other side of town.
Enter Shift, purveyors of “Convenient, Secure, Electronics Recycling”. Having grown weary of the sight of our mountain of keyboards and dead UPSs, all it took was a direct-mail postcard, promising speedy and affordable pick-up from our office. By day’s end we’d arranged to safely and ethically divert or recycle much of our cache of unusable gadgets through Shift. They came on the specified date, whisking away the whole heap, for a little over $30 – both in time and money, a significant savings vs. making use of the city-run options. Shift promises 100% of what they collect will be diverted from landfills and recycled responsibly, and we like that.
And as for Toronto’s own municipal plan for ever-increasing e-waste, we look forward to continued improvement: more Community Environment Days for easy disposal, and better e-waste collection options for multi-unit buildings like ours, in the vein of those now offered for street-level residential dwellings.
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