Alberta is setting up Canada’s first renewable energy recycling program.
Soon, the province’s recycling capabilities will include common household electronics and appliances. Then, it will include solar panels, EV batteries and even wind turbine parts.
The first phase of this extended recycling program will start in April 2025. It currently takes in computer equipment and televisions but will start to recycle power tools, garden equipment, small appliances, electronic instruments, video game equipment, and toys.
That means about 5,500 tonnes of electrical waste will be diverted from landfills!
For renewables, we could start seeing equipment nearing the end of its life by 2050. The expanded recycling program will ensure about 800,000 tonnes of such equipment can be diverted from landfills and recycled for further or other uses.