Industry to tackle e-waste in Canada. (Electronics Recycling).Leaders in Canada's consumer electronics and information technology industries have created Electronics Product Stewardship Product stewardship is a concept whereby environmental protection centers around the product itself, and everyone involved in the lifespan of the product is called upon to take up responsibility to reduce its environmental impact. Canada (EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. Canada), a non-profit that will work to design, promote and implement solutions to Canada's electronic waste problem. The founding members of EPS Canada, who have provided seed funding Seed funding is investing capital to begin a new project, so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period of development until it reaches either a state where it is able to continue funding itself, or has created something in value so that it is worthy of future rounds , include Apple Canada Inc., Brother International Corporation (Canada) Ltd., Canon Canada Inc., Dell Canada, Epson Canada Ltd., Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co., Hitachi Canada Ltd., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Canada Ltd., Lexmark Canada Inc., LG Electronics Canada, Panasonic Canada Inc., Sanyo Canada Inc., Sharp Electronics of Canada Ltd., Sony of Canada Ltd., Thomson Multimedia Ltd. and Toshiba of Canada Ltd. The organization says it is consulting with stakeholders to design "appropriate programs for the safe reuse and recycling of electronic equipment." EPS Canada expects to launch its first end-of-life management program in 2004. Its key mandate will be educating the market on the benefits of a progressive electronics recycling program and its costs. EPS Canada was created through the Information Technology Association of Canada Information Technology Association of Canada (or Association canadienne de la technolgie de l'information) is a lobby group representing members (companies) of Canada's information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. and Electro-Federation Canada. |
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