Electronics Recycling

Donate your electronic waste to Heartwood House!

Since 2006 Heartwood House has been working in partnership with RD Long Computers, under the supervision of Ontario Electronics Stewardship Program which ensures downstream accountability and proper processing of electronic waste. Everybody Wins! is an important and on-going fundraising initiative of Heartwood House.

Special arrangements can be made for companies with large donations of electronic waste. For individual donations call 613-241-5937 to make an appointment to drop off your electronics. Your support of this fundraising initiative is a step to protect electronic waste from ending up in landfills.

Here is the list of accepted items.  A $2 donation is appreciated at drop-off to support the costs of this program.

  • Computers - CPU

  • Laptops

  • Monitors (traditional CRT & flat screen)

  • Televisions

  • Combo TV/Computer Display

  • Keyboards

  • Mice

  • Label-card printers

  • Desktop Printer Combinations

  • Fax Machines

  • Switching Equipment

  • Tape or disk drives

  • Computer Speakers

  • Circuit Boards

  • Cables

  • Drives

  • Desktop Printers

  • Photo Printers

  • Motherboards

  • Cell Phones

  • Scanners

  • DVD/VCR equipment

  • Telephones

  • Personal organizers

  • Handheld electronics

  • Plotters

  • Typewriters

  • Calculators

  • Audiovisual equipment

  • Cameras (film, digital, web-based)

  • Projectors

Items we cannot accept

  • Glass electronic components (ie bare cathode ray tubes, CRTs)

  • Automotive / Industrial displays

  • Non rechargeable batteries

  • Alkaline batteries

  • Oil filled (ie transformers)

  • Medical equipment (not declared biohazard free)

  • Refrigerators, freezers, or other cooling units containing Freon

  • Refrigerators with built-in televisions

  • Smoke detectors

  • Any equipment that might contain nuclear materials

  • Light bulbs of any kind

 
 
 
 

OUr Mission

Heartwood House provides an affordable, accessible workplace for small non-profit and charitable organizations, enabling them to maximize their services through a mutually supportive, hospitable and empowering environment for their clients and participants.

Heartwood House serves the residents of Ottawa who are marginalized, living in poverty, and/or in need of educational, mental health, emotional, physical, economic, employment, training or recreational support through collaboration and the development of formal and informal partnerships within the greater community.