EPRA‑Québec is pleased to publish today its 2024 Highlights. This report presents a positive and encouraging assessment, which reveals the progress made in the recovery of all types of devices, including in the product categories where greater efforts were necessary to achieve regulatory targets.
More than 19,400 metric tonnes of electronic products were recovered and directed to reuse or recycling in 2024. Which means that since its inception in 2012, the Québec Program for the Recovery and Reclamation of Electronic Products has helped divert from landfills more than 225,000 tonnes of devices, such as televisions, computers, printers, sound systems, tablets, cell phones and other small electronics.
The 2024 recovery rates are on the rise in all product categories, and all prescribed targets have been achieved, except for the personal/portable audio/video systems category, which includes products like portable audio players, MP3 players, digital cameras, webcams, handheld video game systems and smart watches. It is indeed more difficult to recover small devices because they are the ones most often forgotten at the bottom of a drawer as a result of their small size and the little space they take up.
These positive results can be explained particularly by the participation of Quebecers who did the right thing by bringing their old electronics to one of approximately 1,000 authorized drop-off points across the province. This collective effort has surely been encouraged by EPRA-Québec’s awareness campaigns and the specific actions it has taken throughout 2024 to improve the recovery of certain types of devices. Other unforeseeable events such as record flooding in the summer of 2024 also had an impact on the volume and on the type of products that were recovered.
To read the 2024 Highlights: Click here.