Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.03
Liaison Karen Oberer
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2012
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

McGill University
OP-20: Electronic Waste Recycling Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Christian Bouchard
Manager, Waste Management Program
University Services
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Does the institution have a program in place to recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish all electronic waste generated by the institution and take measures to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled responsibly?:
Yes

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Does the institution have a program in place to recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish electronic waste generated by students and take measures to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled responsibly?:
Yes

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A brief description of steps taken to ensure that e-waste is recycled responsibly, workers’ basic safety is protected, and environmental standards are met:
All electronic materials that cannot be reused or refurbished goes to Kadisal (http://www.kadisal.com/) . See environmental policy for standards. Kadisal was audited by McGill in 2008.

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A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program for institution-generated materials:
See: www.mcgill.ca/wmp/electronics - McGill's Waste Management Program picks up shipments on both campuses

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A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program for student-generated materials :
Reboot McGill is a co-operative effort between students and the McGill University administration to collect surplus McGill computers and peripherals, refurbish that equipment if possible, redeploy the equipment on campus where appropriate, donate any unwanted usable equipment and lastly arrange for the proper disposal of all unusable equipment and scrap. http://reboot.mcgilleus.ca/

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The website URL where information about the e-waste recycling program is available:
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