How we can help
2 ways to work with us
Partner with an OES-approved processor.
You may already be dealing with an approved provider. If not, we can direct you to one or more. Contact us today.
Hold a collection event.
Contact us six to eight weeks in advance for help and check this link for helpful information.
Who we are
OES is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization, funded by fees from those who make and market electronics in Ontario.
We’re part of a growing trend toward independent, third-party recycling organizations, enthusiastically endorsed by the Consumer Electronics Association.
Fast Facts
- Reusability is an environmental virtue; our program offers businesses choice and opportunity to salvage corporate life technology—be it used, obsolete or unwanted office electronics and equipment— for next life: reuse or recycling.
- Hundreds of audited, certified (municipal, retail, commercial and not-for-profit)—permanent and event-based—collection sites province wide.
- Collectors and processors all operate under safe and controlled working conditions regulated by rigorous health and environmental standards.
- Contracts of service providers with OES obligate destruction of sensitive company information and data in the recycling process.
- No-charge drop off.
- Accepted electronic and electrical equipment includes: computers, monitors, projectors, printers, fax machines, PDAs, phone systems, cell phones, cameras, radios, stereo equipment and TVs.
- E-waste is not garbage.
- E-waste contains valuable materials like base and precious metals, along with glass and plastics, which can be safely reclaimed and reprocessed to manufacture new products.
- E-waste contains hazardous components like mercury, cadmium and lead which must be carefully handled and kept out of landfill.
- Ontario Electronic Stewardship (“OES”) is a not-for-profit industry funding organization (IFO) and complies with Ontario’s Waste Diversion Act.
- Funded by fees paid to OES by manufacturers and importers of electronics in Ontario.
- Fees pay for collection, transportation, consolidation and processing of end-of-life waste electronics, as well as innovations, research, and consumer and business promotion and education programs.
- Program operations began in April, 2009.
- Charged with leading end-of-life electronics collection and diverting e-waste from Ontario’s landfill.
Click here to download these Fast Facts in a printable PDF
So what are we offering?
Peace of mind, knowing that asset disposal is being managed through a network of 600+ companies that meet the highest standards of regulatory compliance, and represent the vanguard of a whole new ‘urban mining’ industry.