London Drugs is a Western Canadian retailer that helps to recycle millions of pounds of materials each year, already there are tens of millions of pounds of waste and materials that has been recycled thanks to their efforts.
London Drugs is considered an eco-leader because of their environmental-friendly practices and initiatives.
London Drugs and recycling partners have kept over 113 million pounds of waste out of landfills around British Columbia.
They launched their What’s The Green Deal? to further enhance their recycling and sustainability efforts. They help Canadians to recycle things like batteries, phones, light bulbs, and other items.
If you are looking to recycle things like electronics, small appliances, light bulbs, or even water filters, and other items, then London Drugs is a retailer worth checking out.
Their What’s The Green Deal? program enables you to efficiently return these items to them and they can take care of it, without you needing to throw it into the garbage bin.
They note on their site that they accept a variety of items if you have purchased them from London Drugs, otherwise they instruct going to your local recycling venue to dispose of it correctly.
There are also some limits to consider that apply per day, you can only recycle a certain amount of light bulbs, plastics, or other items. They join others like Best Buy who are also looking to do what they can to help protect and create a better environment with waste-conscious decisions in business that they are making.
Get rid of old electronics at Best Buy
Best Buy is another retailer that is helping Canadians to properly dispose of batteries and electronics. If you are looking for a place in Coquitlam to dispose of batteries or another area around Vancouver, then look to a Best Buy for help. Best Buy allows you to take those items in for recycling even if you didn’t buy them right from them originally, they still take them from you.
This is a great chance for those in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Vancouver, and other areas, who want to find a place that takes their old batteries and electronics that they are not using any longer.
The recycling by Best Buy is a result of their partnership with Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA) and Call2Recycle. This recycling partnership that Best Buy has is something that enables them to recycle more than just batteries but also cellphones, microwaves, home theater systems, and more.
The Call2Recycle boxes are a convenient way for Canadians to just drop their batteries into the box that they aren’t using any longer.
Best Buy is a retailer for Canadians if you are looking for a place that can help you to dispose of batteries and other appliances, they can make it easy for you. The next time you are going in to do some shopping then you can just bring your old batteries with you that you want to safely dispose of properly, they can help you with it.
There are a variety of Best Buy locations in Vancouver to find and around the Lower Mainland that you could visit.
What can you recycle with Best Buy?
Best Buy can help with disposing of cords and cables, desktop computers, printers, display devices, TVs, monitors, portable car electronics, medical and monitoring equipment, musical instruments, portable computers, batteries and battery powered toys, audio systems, answering machines, pagers, and more.
Aside from Best Buy there are other retailers that also help you to recycle and reduce waste, they include those like MAC with their BACK 2 MAC program that enables you to upcycle your old makeup containers. When you return a certain number of empty containers then you can get a free product like a lipstick and you can recycle both in-store with them and online too.
Nordstrom has also launched their beauty take-back and recycling program known as Beautycycle.
They help Canadians to recycle things like hair gel tubes, hair caps, hair spray bottles, lip balm tubes, lotion bottles and jars, lip glosses, eye liner pencils and cases, eye shadow and eye tubes, concealer tubes, concealer sticks, and other items.
When they brought this program to Canada they effectively became the first major retailer in the country to offer this sort of arrangement. That is offering a recycling program for beauty items from all brands, for hard-to-recycle packaging.
This option that is available is something that gives women in Canada a lot of convenience when they want to find an effective way to dispose of those items, they just drop it into the BEAUTYCYCLE boxes that are found in the beauty department.
Another retailer, The Body Shop in Canada, also offers an easy way to make more environmentally friendly choices with their Return, Recycle, Repeat recycling service. The Body Shop enables Canadians to engage in a recycling refill program, the first of its kind that was launched in the Pacific Centre store in Vancouver.
You can fill the product, like shower gel, and once you are done with it you bring it back and refill it again.
Whether you want to dispose of makeup containers or old batteries, small appliances, or a computer, there are different companies around BC and Canada that can help you to do it. These companies are offering free alternatives for Canadians when they need it, when they cannot access other alternatives.
Together these companies are also keeping millions of pounds of waste out of landfills and helping to upcycle products that would’ve otherwise been considered garbage.
There are many eco-leaders in Canada, these are just a few. More companies in Canada and elsewhere over the last decade have decided to make that shift toward environmentally friendly business practices, and helping their customers make cleaner choices for their communities.
A great majority of companies in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere, are now shifting toward embracing these greener goals.
People want companies to help them make a difference and they are happy to support them when they can achieve that.
If you can help people to dispose of their old containers, recycle small appliances, plant trees, and make those more positive choices, then this is adding more value to their lives. And there is great opportunity in that for both the business and the individual.
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