On Friday, September 1, 2006 The Windsor Star carried an article by Dave Hall, Star Business Reporter, about eWaste Recycling. We would like to quote from that article:

"Ten years after opening a recycling center catering to the automotive industry Pazner Environmental Ltd. has established a third company specializing in recycling electronic scrap or e-Waste.

"The company's newest venture, eWaste Recycling Inc., recycles eWaste including desktop computers, laptops, cell phones, servers, software, CD-ROMs, fax machines, monitors and printers, many of which now end up in landfills despite the fact they contain hazardous wastes such as lead and mercury.

"Jeremy Berger, who has been with Pazner for eight years, said "90 to 92 per cent of e-waste is landfilled in the sad thing is that 100 per cent of it can be recycled.

"It's a matter of education and informing businesses that all of their electronic equipment can be recycled," said Berger.

"Most of the marketing efforts on behalf of recyclers has been directed towards the residential market and we're attempting to focus on the business sector.

"Michael Spadotto, who handles sales and marketing, said "a lot of companies don't know how to recycle so they tend to just toss this material out without giving thought to where it goes.

"We disassemble the product and dispose of each part separately," said Spadotto, "we recycle the plastic and glass through our own company and the rest we ship out to companies which specialize in disposing of such material.

"Pazner, which started out as Pazner Scrap on Drouillard Road more than 50 years ago, also operates Can Am Recycling on the same Queen Street site in Tilbury where it specializes in processing plastics.

"Wiping hard drives clean

"Spadotto said eWaste will also wipe computer hard drives clean so that none of the material contained on them falls into the wrong hands, especially sensitive personal information.

"When material arrives at eWaste’s Tilbury plant, it's immediately weighed, assigned a tracking number and then sorted by like items.

"All scrap material is then disassembled, separated and reusable components are harvested for testing and reuse.

"The remainder is prepared for metals, plastic or glass recovery.

"Berger said eWaste guarantees that 100 per cent of the material it takes in will be recycled.

"The company also works with CAW Local 200’s Computers for Kids program, helping refurbish old computers and recycling unusable ones.

"Berger said "we don't have an official role in partnership with the program but we'd like to develop a relationship because we think we can help them defray some of the costs by assisting with their recycling efforts."

"Berger said there's a growing need for those services because "as the price of new computers keeps dropping, more people are buying and then getting rid of their old ones rather than fixing the ones they have.

"Recycling gets a lot of negative publicity and it is a dirty business but, at the other end, there's a lot of community good that comes out of recycling efforts," said Berger.

"Landfills are running out of capacity so anything we can do to keep material from being landfilled is important.

“eWaste charges 25 cents a pound and that includes the company's full range of recycling processes."