{"id":161029,"date":"2025-09-16T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/161029\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:40:16","slug":"new-automated-kiosks-in-ontario-will-pay-you-for-your-old-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/161029\/","title":{"rendered":"New automated kiosks in Ontario will pay you for your old phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EcoATM, a global leader in electronics recycling, officially launched in Canada through a partnership with Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250915811176\/en\/ecoATM-Launches-in-Canada-Through-Partnership-with-Walmart-Introducing-First-13-Kiosks-to-the-Greater-Toronto-Area\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>, the initial launch will see 13 kiosks open in Walmarts across the Greater Toronto Area, mainly in Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, and Burlington, with plans for further expansion.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\/university-waterloo-electronic-waste-1.6835910#:~:text=The%20research%20indicates%20e%2Dwaste,by%202030%2C%20the%20study%20suggests.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>\u00a0states that Canadians generated nearly one million tonnes of e-waste in the year 2020 alone, with the e-waste per person jumping from 8.3 kilograms in 2000 to 25.3 kilograms.\u00a0CBC&#8217;s\u00a0figure projects that the total e-waste per year will reach 1.2 million tonnes by the year 2030.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/o1\/en\/plus\/8301-trip-through-your-wires-canadian-households-and-electronic-waste\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statcan<\/a>, only 16 per cent of Canadian households returned an unwanted phone to a supplier. In the same survey, 14 per cent of households had an unwanted computer they needed to dispose of, while cellphones and televisions also had the same percentage.<\/p>\n<p>EcoATM has about 6,500 recycling kiosks across the United States, with the company collecting over 50 million devices to date; diverting about 25 million pounds of e-waste from landfills. This year, the company aims to recycle 7.5 million pounds of e-waste across North America.<\/p>\n<p>The kiosks use what the company calls &#8220;advanced diagnostics and real-world pricing&#8221; to evaluate devices and provide cash for them automatically.<\/p>\n<p>The process begins with the device being placed inside the kiosk, where an automated evaluation and ID verification take place. Then, the kiosk shows you a quote for the device, which users can accept, and then receive the cash instantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EcoATM, a global leader in electronics recycling, officially launched in Canada through a partnership with Walmart. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,2101,2066,8510,2432,8293,79],"class_list":["post-161029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-for","tag-money","tag-old","tag-ontario","tag-phone","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}