The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) is excited to announce two new scholarship opportunities! The competition runs from January 1st, 2022 to September 1st, 2022 giving you plenty of time to see how many donated devices you can collect.
Accepted Items:
laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktop computers, retro gaming consoles and computers, handheld gaming devices, corporate computer equipment, servers, switches, business routers, and scientific equipment.
How to Collect Items:
1. Get individuals and businesses to download the ERA App iOs or Android or website form. Enter scholarship ID. Request a shipping label. ERA will collect items from homes and businesses on your behalf at no charge for approved items. Non-approved items will be accepted for a fee, but will still count towards the scholarship totals if the fees are paid. (credit card e-transfer, etc)
2. Organize corporate pickups on behalf of ERA, collecting computers for donations to our list of 500+ charities and nonprofits. ERA will pick up 10 or more computing devices from any company Canada-wide, and offer hard drive destruction for any amount of hard drives contained in the computing devices. 100 devices, 100 hard drives shredded at no charge.
3. Organize community events or collection events for computers and electronics.