New electronics recycling centre opens in Cut Knife

Residents of Cut Knife and the surrounding area have a new option to dispose of electronics.

The Electronic Products Recycling Association of Saskatchewan announced Thursday, Nov. 17 the Cut Knife landfill is now an authorized drop-off centre for end-of-life electronics.

“It’s one way to help the community divert electronics out of the landfill and out of the environment,” EPRA program director Gayleen Creelman said.

An environmental benefit of recycling electronics is being able to reuse the materials, rather than leaving them to sit in a landfill. Creelman said they are able to recycle roughly 90 per cent of the metals, plastics, glass and other earth elements, so those products return into the manufacturing supply chain rather than taken from the environment.