Alberta residents beware! There is a government ran computer and electronics recycling program being heavily advertised on tv, radio, and internet. This program collects a tax from you upon purchase of computers and electronics. The money collected is used to fund multymillion dollar recycling companies in Alberta, all at a large cost. Now most of these computers being recycled, don't need to be. Many are in heavy demand by local charities, non profit groups, poor people in Alberta, Canada, and all over the world. We are saddened by the governments response time and time again and unwillingless to take action. The bourcracy they have in place is unwilling to look at options, and blindly recycles valuable tools and equipment that many people can not even afford. We are looking for support on a class action appeal for change. We call on all hospitals, schools, and organizations of all kind to look at options. Calgary Drop in Center, The Red Cross, Many Veteran related insitutions, are all in need of computers. We are posting a list of over 100 charities and groups in need on our website in the near future.

Toronto, Ontario, our depot is now open. Companies and individuals in Toronto can contact us to donate, remarket or recycle your surplus, excess, or obsolete computer equipment. Click here Toronto.

We are extremely happy and excited to announce that we are days from being open in Vancouver, British Columbia. ERA is soon to have a grand opening of our downtown Vancouver, Computer and Electronics Depot located at 2028 Wall Street. Keep posted to the website for grand opening event ceremony details and your invitation. Companies and individuals from Vancouver and area can already contact us to donate, remarket or recycle your surplus, excess, or obsolete computer equipment. Click here Vancouver.

Our current request list for donation of laptops and computers to different charities, non profit groups, elderly homes, disability centers, learning institutions, in Alberta, and across the world has grown to a record level. If you are interested in helping one of the groups that are currently waiting for equipment please contact us for a list of needy organizations and you can then choose who to donate to. You or your company can also donate your computers directly to us. Click here.

ERA is currently looking for old laptops and computers. Please donate your old computers as they can be of use to somebody. Please look at this picture.

ERA goes on TV to try and get some attention. Currently landfills across Alberta, and many government organizations are unnecessarily disposing of old computers, when they can be used by people here and abroad. We have many outstanding requests for old computers from all over the world, and can send them as a form of foreign aid to help these countries access information, educate children, etc. Calgary Appeal Image, Calgary Sound, Edmonton Appeal Image, Edmonton Sound.

ERA is celebrating the second year of our computer depot system at our Computer Depot location in Calgary. This event will feature local entertainment, and will happen on the first Saturday of the Stampede, July 9th, 2005. Calgary and Edmonton residents are invited to come by and take part in the festivities. This is a fully licensed event.

ERA officials visited Edmonton's so called computer recycling program on May, 27, 2005 and were disgusted. The Edmonton landfill was filled with computers and electronics of all kind. Newer and usable computers very useful to local poor residents and thousands of monitors which could be on people's desks were just laying around in mud and water polluting our precious environment. The same people in charge of this landfill refused our requests to go in at no charge to the government and clean up this environmental disaster. We urge everyone from Edmonton to call the Mayor and help us get this problem under control. Our organization could find a home for all usable computers found in the landfill, and environmentally recycle the rest. Click for pictures of this disaster.

ERA currently has outstanding requests from local and foreign organizations that require it to collect more than 65,000 used desktop computer systems including monitors, and as many as 80,000 laptops of any shape and condition. Many of these will come from the recycling stream, companies which do not realize that maybe their old computers can be donated, etc.

ERA donates several newer working computer systems to Edmonton's Boyle Street Community Services Inner City Resource Centre. This organization which helps many disadvantaged individuals in Edmonton was using old Pentium1 computers in their community access room. ERA feels that is very inadequate for Albertan charities and non profits to use equipment this old. Many more recent systems are sitting in Edmonton's landfill when they could be put to good use in the community. Many computers which can be given to charities in Alberta are also being unnecessarily recycled by the provincial and municipal recycling programs in Alberta, when they could benefit people and potentially change their lives.

ERA is currently petitioning to prevent the provincial and municipal governments and its contractors from unnecessarily destroying useful computer equipment. To the surprise of many people, the government is fully supporting and funding computers to be taken apart and dismantled, even when not required. Zero support is given to organizations such as ours who try to reuse this equipment, and provide it to many people who can benefit from having such valuable tools as computers. If you want to donate your computer and possibly see it go to a good cause, please click here.

We are currently collecting all kinds of computers, monitors, and laptops for many of our programs. We've received numerous requests from various agencies throughout Alberta, Canada, and throughout the world, looking for old computers which they can use to help their cause. We are compiling a list to post online. Many international communities such as Macedonia, Kosovo, Uganda, Haiti just need the basic systems to use, while Alberta and Canada wide, we are donating to institutions and centers computers P2 or higher.

ERA is donating some computers collected in our programs to Calgary's Bethany Care Society - one of Western Canada's largest voluntary not-for-profit providers of health, housing and community support for seniors and persons with disabilities. Their care programs include adult day support, respite care, residential care, designated supportive living, long term care, multi-stage dementia care, and programs directed at specific cultural groups. Not only does the Bethany Care society provide vital services to senior and person's with disabilities, they also act as advocates to help increase the profile of seniors and persons with disabilities in Alberta and raise issues that affect their lives.

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta joins the National Cristina Foundation (NCF), which provides computer technology and solutions to give people with disabilities, students at risk and economically disadvantaged persons the opportunity, through training, to lead more independent and productive lives. Every day, across Canada, America and around the world, National Cristina Foundation is working to ensure that used computer technology resources that no longer meet an enterprise's or an individual's needs are given a second productive life as a tool for developing human potential. This is an excellent partnership for ERA, which can reuse, and recycle old computer equipment throughout Alberta, Canada.

ERA is in need of assistance in Edmonton! Please look on the Careers with ERA page for more info, and to contact us if you can help in any way. Volunteer, part time, and full time positions are available.

Soon non profit organizations, elderly homes, and libraries in Edmonton that can not afford computers will be donated collected equipment from ERA's programs. We encourage such groups to contact us if they are interested in receiving equipment..

ERA's electronics reuse program is quickly proving how valuable reuse is to recycling. Many items collected at municipal collection sites still function and can be used by someone otherwise unable to afford this equipment brand new. ERA's municipal programs as illustrated in this Vulcan story collect equipment for reuse and recycling, ensuring there is no damage. This way computers and electronics can be redeployed into the community for further use, and still efficiently collect all of the end-of-life recyclables.

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta is proud to announces the launch of Edmonton's Computer Depot. The Depot is open now OPEN! Grand Opening with media and charity giveaways is scheduled for May 13th, 2005. This location is perfectly suited for ERA's program. The program is geared to collect old computer and electronic equipment, which most of us think of as obsolete. The fact is, most of this equipment is usable and very valuable to somebody. An old PI could make a great server for a website, help children learn, elderly pass time talking to family, and so on. The location is near an EcoStation in Edmonton, so people no longer have to throw their equipment into the landfill, never to be used again. The address is 11404 143 Street.

Staples Business Depot signs up to ERA's depot program. Staples locations listed on our website will be participating in this excellent program, which enables easy access to a drop off point at no charge to consumers. Now it is even more convenient to dispose of your old or unwanted laptops, computers, monitors and accessories. Items can either be given away for donation or recycling directly at the Staples locations.

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta announces plans to launch the "Edmonton Computer Depot". This depot will be a place where older computers and electronics are collected and sorted into reusable or recyclable items, exactly as at the Calgary Computer Depot. The location will be announced in the next few weeks. The building selected is located in downtown Edmonton, and is about 10,000 square feet in size.

ERA partners with Reboot Canada, to offer more services in Alberta. This will be a great extension to ERA's current programs offered in Alberta. For more information visit our Reboot Website at www.era.ca/reboot

ERA has identified a need for over 65,000 used computer systems and 80,000 laptops. This requirement comes from requests that were made to us via various charities, non profit groups, 3rd world countries, 3rd world countries schools and libraries, and many other local and foreign operations. It is our goal to collect this equipment in 2005 throughout Canada, USA, and the UK.

ERA prevents small country in the Caribbean from dumping thousands of old computers, monitors, and printers into the Ocean. All equipment will be send to the nearest reuse and recycling facility.

Smiles and Giggles daycare in Calgary's low income SE community receives some recycled computers collected in ERA's many collection programs. Kids attending this daycare will be able to learn and play on computers otherwise destined to be recycled or land filled. Pictures

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta - computer and electronic recycling in Alberta, featured on CFCN News. This FFWD Magazine article tries to show how our program works.

Churchill Park Family Care Society, a non profit childcare organization, which operates 7 day care facilities in Calgary, and ERA are trying to put upwards of 40 computers into use in the daycares. Equipment collected by ERA will be refurbished and donated to this great group. More info.

Memory Express Computer Products Inc and Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta expand its collection depots to include another large location in Edmonton, Alberta. More info

The Friends of Banff National Park is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of Banff National Park require several laptops to assist with their programs. More info.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, one of the largest infantry regiments in Canada requires some laptops for its Cadet Regiment in Calgary to assist with in the field training exercises. More info

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta announces its year end contribution to the environment. In 2004, ERA along with its many partners in reducing the amount of electronic waste in Alberta’s landfills jointly prevented upwards of 700,000 pounds of computers and electronics from being buried in our landfills. To grasp their contribution to the Alberta environment, this year their efforts have prevented 6 times the height of the Calgary tower of computer towers stacked on top of each other from going into the landfills. 6 times the height of the Calgary tower of computer monitors, 3 times the height of Calgary tower of televisions. More

ERA expands on its landfill recycling program dubbed "COOP" offering an incentive higher than the incentive offered by the provincial government for collection and sorting of computers and monitors in landfills. This program currently includes several landfills throughout Alberta and Canada, which have realized the potential for reuse of the equipment they collect.

The Calgary Science Centre is pleased to offer an electrifying event that will give your students a chance to learn about technology in an exciting and creative environment. Electronic Recycling Association is providing some old vcrs, speakers, and telephones for this program. More more info please visit the Calgary Science Website here.

Red Cross Canada emergency relief stations. Red Cross is involved in all kinds of disaster relief efforts, such as the fires in BC. The Red Cross sets up mobile offices of 50 or so people all equipped with a mobile office solution, consisting of network accessible laptops, telephone systems, and telephones. We are currently looking for computers and telephones to give to this program, which can help a lot of people. If you wish to donate please check the Wanted Items listing for items we really need.

Calgary Association of Self-Help, based in downtown Calgary receives some computers to use in its offices. This local charity which helps people was using really old 486 computers in their offices. This was seen as inadequate by our staff and they were given a few systems. Many other local and foreign groups are in the same position.

A UN research group, confirmed Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta's practice of reuse of computer and electronic equipment as more environmentally friendly than recycling of that equipment. Research carried out last year by Eric Williams of the United Nations University in Japan proved without a doubt that re-use is better for the environment than recycling. The majority of PCs routinely disposed of for recycling by businesses and consumers alike are actually far from their real ‘end-of-life’ and could go on to give as much as 6,000 additional hours of use. Info

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta - Donating and Recycling computers and electronics in Calgary and Alberta with the help of private and public sector. Five of Alberta's largest contributors to our program receive an award of excellence for the year 2004. Awards recipients. More info

Calgary, Alberta - Additional depot locations open to ensure ease of access to a depot to everyone. Now even more communities throughout Calgary have a close to home drop off point. Any of the depot locations can be used to drop off your computer or electronic item for donation and recycling.

Electronic Recycling Association announces the expansion of its operations in Canada, now to include locations in Regina, SK, and Montreal, QC. Currently offering similar services to the ones offered to companies and individuals in Calgary, Alberta.

Electronic Recycling Association, joins the group of the Dominica Project. This new program introduced aims to provide Information Technology needs within the Commonwealth of Dominical schools using recycled computers from Alberta. This programs goal is to provide 20,000 students with access to computer equipment. Computers are currently being collected throughout Alberta and are scheduled to be delivered early 2005. More info coming.

October 23rd, 2004. Canyon Meadows Community Association and ERA hold a Computer and Electronic Roundup. This event is going to be held at the Canyon Meadows Community Hall in Calgary. Computers, laptops, televisions, stereos, cb radios, will be accepted for reuse and recycling at this event. More information

Residents of Cochrane, Alberta, now have a more environmentally friendly, and socially beneficial option for their obsolete computers and electronics. Computers and Electronics no longer wanted by residents of Cochrane can be taken to TreMar Computer Solutions, listed on our Associates section. From there the equipment will be reused through one of our many donation programs, or recycled. Please bring any old computers, laptops, televisions, to this location in Cochrane.

Calgary Drop-in and Rehab Center Society and the Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta, jointly offer a new program to low income residents of Calgary, entitled "CLIC" This new program aims to collect old computers from Calgary and Alberta based businesses, and put any reusable ones into good use by providing them to lower income families in Calgary. More information

Computers and Electronics Retailers throughout Alberta, in Calgary and Edmonton, participate in a computer recycling program with the ERA. Small bins are being placed at participating locations to prevent all ewaste from ever reaching the landfills. More info

Ton of Fun Playcare, a day home, play home, receives some recycled computers from E.R.A. for some of their many children to play or learn on. Computers were installed, and the kids were very excited. Games all around were had by children, at some cases very anxious to get their turn. E.R.A. technicians were on site and this was one of their favourite places. Several other daycares are waiting for computers and TVs, and as soon as some become available they will also be provided with them. More info and pictures

ESL Academy in Downtown Calgary, one of the finer places for newcomers in Canada to go to and learn English to become contributing members of society, receives some recycled computers from E.R.A. Computers donated were collected from organizations that are a part of the members contributing to various social programs and ensuring that they old equipment is disposal of environmentally. Click for the ESL Academy Jesus Chris Hope Center computer classroom pictures.

The launch of Computer and Electronics Depot locations throughout the country starts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. To answer the growing demand for proper disposal of computer and electronic equipment, the Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta, and now soon of Canada offers a financial incentive to organizations and individuals who bring down their old computer and electronic equipment to the depot. Loosely based on the Bottle Depot model, these locations will offer a refund on computers, monitors, parts, accessories, and other electronic items, such as televisions, vcrs, satellites, telephone equipment, etc. Unlike other solutions currently available where a fee is charged for disposal of this type of equipment, you are able to receive money back through this program. Refunds range from $0.25 cents for old computers and monitors, $1.00-$25.00 or more for newer and working items, to thousands of dollars for certain mainframe systems and telephone equipment. For more information visit Calgary Computer and Electronic Depot

Memory Express, Calgary's largest computer retailer, joins the group of retailers to take initiative and prevent items they sell from reaching the landfills after they are unwanted or non working. They are offering to take back your old computer and peripheral at their store on McLeod Trail S.W. Similar to the roundup events help throughout the city, except this is a permanent location. Items will be collected and put through the programs offered by the Electronic Recycling Association.

Sector Computer Systems in Calgary's North East offers to take back unwanted and non working computers and accessories at its store. Any individuals or organizations in need of appropriately disposing of their old computer item can now bring it to this location.

Another provincial landfill receives its Recycling Center for old computers and electronics. M.D. of Foothills No. 31 Foothills Regional Waste Management Facility received its Recycling Center on May 28th 2004. This Recycling Center will serve the residents and organizations in the High River, Okotokes area. Everyone is encouraged to drop off their unwanted computers and electronics for reuse and recycling into this container. Click for more information.

Computer and electronic recycling program offered by Electronic Recycling Association and Interspots Inc produces excellent results in preventing this type of waste from reaching the landfills. The E.R.A. and Interspots Inc successfully prevent hundreds of computer and electronic items from being buried forever, and put these items to good use by providing them to different organizations and individuals in need. More info

Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta opens a first of its kind Computers and Electronics Depot, where they will accept computers and electronics for reuse or recycling year round. Located in the City of Calgary this new facility will serve as a place where companies and individuals can drop off their unwanted electronic items for reuse or recycling. Items that are accepted include such things as computers, monitors, peripherals, televisions, stereo equipment, and other electronic items.

Electronic Recycling Association provides computer equipment to The Alex Center in Calgary to help their "Woman on a Shoestring" program. This program is geared towards business woman on low income that could not otherwise afford this type of equipment. Further equipment is being refurbished by E.R.A technicians and will be provided to more individuals in need through this program.

Electronic Recycling Association provides Engineers without Borders of University of Calgary with computer equipment to be used in their oversees IT training program Scala Project with different schools and organizations.

John Howard Society and Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta are planning a community event on the 21st of April. This event will be geared towards non for profit organizations and different charities that are in need of equipment to enable their business to operate. All Alberta based non for profit groups and charities are invited to attend and request equipment from the E.R.A.

Express Computer Store joins the Electronic Recycling Associations list of retailers that accept computers and electronics back for recycling. Their store is in central location where various individuals and organizations will have easy access to. Everyone is encouraged to start using this location as a spot to bring in unwanted computers and electronics. Contact them by phone in Calgary at (403) 640-2129 or at their website on www.expresscomputer.ab.ca

Recycle Plus of Calgary Inc. and the Curbside Recycling Association of Calgary are offering citizens of Calgary and area with a pickup service of unwanted electronic items for recycling. With a membership to their association you receive weekly pickups of your electronic items and cardboard, Newspapers, Magazines, Mixed Paper, Milk & Juice Cartons etc.) , Metal, Glass and all Plastics #1-7 ( including all clean soft, stretchy bags and film). Servicing residential/small office customers. Please contact them at (403) 230-1030 or their website at www.recyclepluscalgary.com

InterSpots Inc. in Edmonton partners up with the Electronic Recycling Association to reduce Alberta's electronic waste. This Edmonton based organization is accepting electronic items from organizations for recycling. Please contact them directly to schedule a drop off. Please visit their website for their address at www.interspots.com or call them at (780)-420-6150

Bowest Appliances in Calgary, Alberta is offering collection of unwanted electronic items such as computers and VCRs for recycling. This joint program with the Electronic Recycling Association is offered at both Bowest locations in the city of Calgary. For address and contact details visit their website at http://www.bowestappl.com/

K&W Audio in Calgary, Alberta is now accepting Ewaste from organizations and individuals for recycling. Items such as computers, laptops, amplifiers, stereos, vcrs, etc fit for recycling are collected and disposed of appropriately. This program has gained national attention for its potential in reducing waste. For more information on K&W Audio and their address please visit their website at www.kwaudio.com

Alberta based retirement centers scheduled to receive computers for use in their libraries. Computers ready for internet access will be installed by E.R.A technicians. Equipment provided will come from Electronic Recycling Centers operated by the Electronic Recycling Association. Any organizations interested in receiving computers, televisions, etc, are encouraged to request equipment.

Another program launched by the Electronic Recycling Association provides small developing country in Europe, Croatia, with computers for a school in need. All equipment provided was collected by programs operated by the organization. Additional Information

Ecco Waste Systems Landfill of Calgary and Electronic Recycling Association divert 5 tones of old computers, monitors, and televisions from being buried in the landfill with the "Electronic Recycling Center" on the landfill site. This project has produced excellent results in the 1 month of operation.

Electronic Recycling Association pre announces the city wide roundup event to be held throughout the City of Calgary titled "Recycle Your Old Electronics". We will be working with companies in the city providing week long access to Electronic Recycling Centers, to individuals and organizations in Calgary wanting to dispose of their unwanted: computers, televisions, monitors, home electronics, accessories. All usable items collected would be provided to individuals and organizations in need by the programs offered through our association. For the date of the event please join our association and we will notify you in our future recycling updates.

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