After spending the last 20 years as an IT manager, I shudder to think of the mountain of electronic debri my work has generated. It’s actually pretty darn scary. Thinking of all that lead and mercury leaching into the watertables of the world and the lungs of salvagers in Asia (where most of this stuff is shipped) is a depressing thought.

To start to combat this problem, the BC Provincial Government recently started to levi a fee on new electronics to fund a safe recycling program run by EnCorp through-out the province. In Kamloops you can now drop off your electronic junk for free at the Lorne Street Return-It recycling centre off the Holston connector.

I loaded up the car full of old computers, monitors, cables and other items and headed down. You will feel so much better when you know that your cyber waste is being disposed of properly. Now if they could only make new computer motherboards out of beatle-kill pine trees…

I’ll talk more about what IT Services is doing to reduce, reuse and recycle in other posts.