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Recycling your electronics Saturday John Curry News Staff

News - Here comes Earth Day! And a great way to celebrate the occasion is by gathering up your old electronics that are sitting around your home and taking them to the second annual free electronics recycling drop-off being held at Stittsville Public School on Saturday, April 26. Coming just a couple of days after Earth Day, it is a great way to demonstrate support for protecting the environment which is the aim of Earth Day. This free electronics recycling drop-off on Saturday, April 26 will take place in the parking lot at Stittsville Public School at 40 Granite

Ridge Drive in Stittsville, starting at 8 a.m. and running through to 1 p.m. And you will not only be helping the environment by recycling these old electronics but you will be helping out Stittsville Public School because the proceeds from this event are going to go to help out the school. Those dropping off old electronics can do so for free. The funds are raised from the Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) which will provide funds to the Stittsville Public School organizers depending on the weight of the collected electronics. The Live 88.5 radio station’s Ground Crew will be on site with music and prizes. Among those helping to unload the old electronics

from your vehicle will be city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri who against this year has volunteered to help out. You can take just about anything to this electronics recycling dropoff. Everything will be recycled in a responsible manner including monitors, televisions, computers, printers, fax machines, copiers, telephones, answering machines, cellular devices, pagers, home theatres, vehicle audio devices, digital cameras and video recorders. So it’s a great way to do some spring cleaning around the house by getting ride of those old electronic devices that have just been sitting around the house. It will not take long – just drive in, stop, have the

items unloaded by volunteers and off you go while the volunteers carry the items to the recycle bin. It’s easy and fast and usually there is no waiting. It couldn’t be easier. Stittsville Public School is working with the Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) on this initiative. OES is a not-for-proﬁt industry organization that oversees the responsible reuse and recycling of end-of-life electronics with this free electronics drop-off program being one of the ways that this mission is carried out. The goal is to divert electronics from landﬁlls and ensure that they are responsibly recycled. The OES asks that all Ontario residents take an E-cycle pledge and promise to reduce their e-waste by selling it, donating it, gifting it or recycling it. This is an opportunity to recycle it for free.

In 2010, 80 percent of Ontario households had at least one out-ofuse electronic device. In 2011, 90 percent of Ontario residents indicated that they had at least one out-of-use device. Yet, despite the abundance of all of these out-of-use devices, less than 40 percent of Ontario residents actually recycle an old electronics item. Yes, recycling is a great way of re-using materials found in e-waste. E-waste contains some of the most valuable precious metals mined and reﬁned today. For instance, to produce one tonne of copper, it takes only 14 tonnes of recycled e-waste. If copper is mined, it takes 80,000 tonnes of raw materials from mining to produce one tonne of copper. For more information, check out the website www.recycleyourelectronics.ca.

RAISING FUNDS TO HELP KIDS WITH CANCER THIS YEAR’S EVENT WILL BE HELD AT THE CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM & LEBRETON FLATS WITH

LANE REDUCTIONS/ROAD CLOSURES IN EFFECT:

OTTAWA RIVER PARKWAY 6 AM - 1 PM | Booth St. to Island Park Dr. OTTAWA RIVER PARKWAY 8 AM - 12:30 PM | Island Park Dr. to Carling Ave. WELLINGTON STREET EASTBOUND (Booth St. to Lyon St.) 8 AM - 11 AM | Eastbound lane reduction Booth St. to Lyon St. WELLINGTON STREET WESTBOUND (Sussex St. to Booth St.) 10 AM - 1 PM | Westbound lane reduction Sussex Dr. to Lyon St. PORTAGE BRIDGE 10 AM - 1 PM | Closed both directions LYON STREET (Wellington St. to Laurier Ave.) 8 AM - 10 AM LAURIER AVENUE (Lyon St. to Queen Elizabeth Dr. on ramp) 8 AM - 11 AM | Lyon St. to Elgin St. closed to all but crossing traffic LAURIER AVENUE 8 AM - 11 AM | Eastbound lanes Elgin St. to Nicholas St. (Partial Closure) QUEEN ELIZABETH DRIVE 8 AM - 11 AM PRINCE OF WALES DRIVE 8 AM - 11:15 AM | Northbound lane Preston St. to Heron Rd. (Partial Closure)

SUNDAY MAY 4 2014

6 AM – 1 PM

HERON ROAD (Prince of Wales Dr. to Riverside Dr.) 8 AM - 11:30 AM | Lane reductions Prince of Wales Dr. to Riverside Dr. VINCENT MASSEY PARK ACCESS 8 AM - 11:30 AM RIVERSIDE ROAD (Heron Rd. to Hogs Back) 8 AM - 11:30 AM | Southbound lane reduction Heron Rd. to Hogs Back Rd. HOGS BACK (Riverside Dr. to Prince of Wales Dr.) 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Westbound lane Riverside Dr. to Colonel By Dr. COLONEL BY DRIVE 8:30 AM - 12:15 PM SUSSEX DRIVE 9 AM - 12:30 PM | Rideau St. to Rockliffe Pkwy. Local access to Notre Dame Basilica from St. Patrick St. ROCKCLIFFE PARKWAY 9 AM - 12:30 PM | Sussex Dr. To St. Joseph Blvd. Local access to Aviation Museum and Rockliffe Flying Club from Aviation Pkwy. CUT OFF LOCATIONS Laurier St. @ Elgin St. Queen Elizabeth Dr. @ Preston St. (Dows Lake) 11 AM Colonel By Dr. @ Rideau St. Governor General Roundabout

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