Ceylinco Life’s Green Club collects 990 kgs of waste
View(s):Employees of Ceylinco Life and their families kept 990 kg of potentially toxic electronic waste from harming the planet, thanks to an ‘E-waste Collection Day’ initiative of the Company’s Green Club which saw abandoned and malfunctioning electronic equipment being responsibly recycled.
Among the discarded devices collected from Ceylinco Life offices and homes of employees were items of electronic equipment such as printers, personal computers and parts, laptops, networking equipment, scanners, mobile phones, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, UPS units, video cameras, calculators, facsimile machines and telephones, video games, electronic components and multiple types of batteries including Lead, Nickel, and Cadmium batteries, telecommunication and server batteries, the company said in a media release.
In all, 800 plus pieces of electronic waste were amassed on the day and dispatched to a reputed company specialising in the recycling and disposal of e-waste. This works out to approximately 11,123 lbs of Carbon emissions being prevented from entering the atmosphere and is equivalent to saving 369 trees or recycling 12,990 plastic bottles, the company said.
Commenting on the event, the President of Ceylinco Life’s Green Club Tilan Wijesinghe said: “It is astounding how much e-waste can accumulate in homes and offices over the years. The success of our first ‘E-waste Collection Day’ was encouraging and helped create environmental awareness on an aspect that is often ignored. There is wider understanding now about how harmful the toxins in e-waste are to the environment.”