Dive summary:
- Environment Canada has pressed charges against Electronics Recycling Canada of Surrey and its president, Sai Feng Guan, for illegally exporting lead-acid batteries, nickel-cadmium batteries and cathode ray tubes.
- In a separate case, two shipping containers of electronics were sent back from Hong Kong for containing “controlled waste,” including old batteries and computer pieces.
- E-Tech and PC Max are under investigation by Canadian authorities but have not yet been charged; the companies are claiming their shipments were not going to be recycled under unsafe conditions.
From the article:
One of those containers — shipped by PC Max Computers on Annacis Island in Delta — was en route to Pakistan and contained waste cathode ray tubes and liquid crystal displays, the department said. The second container — which was shipped by E-Tech Management and bound for Hong Kong, where the Richmond-based company has a recycling plant — contained waste batteries and waste flat-panel displays and has also been returned.
E-Tech’s electronics warehouse is located with other recyclers in a City of Vancouver-owned property on Industrial Avenue. The company says it gets its electronics for export from at least 50 recyclers in the Lower Mainland. ...
