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Pelham firefighters to hold eWaste Day to raise funds for new training equipment BY TINA CHIVERS VOICE Staff On Saturday, August 27, the Fonthill firefighters will head over to the Municipal Building and spend five hours working as junk collectors. The Pelham Fire Department Extrication Team will be hosting an
electronic recycling day (eWaste Day) from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at Pelham Town Hall. Robert Belchoir, a volunteer firefighter and member of the extrication team, says that he got the idea to host an eWaste day from a friend. “I heard about the idea via a friend who is a volunteer in Niagara Falls,”
says Belchoir. “They had a successful eWaste Day a few months ago.” Belchoir says that Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES), a company that specializes in recycling electronics, will provide the equipment to collect the electronic waste. The company consolidates the waste at a factory in the Hamilton area, and from
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there it is sent to one of a dozen or so North American facilities that break it down in a responsible manner. “I asked the OES representative for assurance that the material would not be shipped to Third World countries that use open-air burning to smelt out the metals, and he assured me that the material is processed here,” says Belchoir. The firefighters have much to gain from collecting the waste. “We’ll receive $185 per tonne collected,” says Belchoir. According to Belchoir, the money raised will be used to help purchase new stabilization equipment (used to secure vehicles at a collision scene to ensure the safety of patients and first responders). “The new equipment is easier to transport, quicker to setup, and takes up less space on the rescue vehicles,” he says. “Our goal as a team is to acquire new equipment, evaluate it at practices and competitions, then make recommendations to the fire department as to whether the equipment should be acquired for all three stations.” The extrication team is dispatched to open vehicles at accident scenes, it also competes in firefighter games in Canada
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Volunteer firefighter, Robert Belchoir, prepares to dump a box of electronic waste. The Pelham firefighters will be hosting an e-Waste recycling day on Saturday, August 27, at the Municipal Building. Tina Chivers/Voice Photo and the United States. The Pelham team has won medals and trophies during such competitions. Examples of eWaste include computers, televisions, printers, telephones, cellphones, answering machines, stereo receivers, mp3 devices, tape recorders, VHS machines, fax machines, pagers, scanners, video projectors, tuners, turn-
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