About Insertech

The adoption of an environmental policy allows Insertech Angus to clearly reaffirm its commitment to sustainable development, to set out its environmental commitments and to inform all its stakeholders. Environmental protection is an integral part of its activities. Insertech Angus is committed to minimizing the risks and impacts that its products, services and activities related to the processing of computer equipment can generate on the environment.

Insertech Angus is committed to:

• Determine and review annually its legal and regulatory compliance obligations;
• Ensure that its operations are conducted in compliance with the laws, regulations and standards that have an impact on environmental management and to which Insertech Angus is subject;
• Maintain an environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001 throughout the organization and its activities;
• Promptly correct any non-conformities that may be detected in its processes;
• Prevent, control and reduce emissions into the environment;
• Control the environmental aspects of its activities in order to prevent their negative impacts;
• Respect the hierarchy of Source Reduction, Reuse, Recycling, Valorization and Disposal in its operations and in the management of its residual materials;
• Favour suppliers who strive to minimise the impact of their activities on the environment;
• Collaborate with governments, businesses, the community and relevant interest groups to promote environmental protection;
• Demonstrate ethics, integrity and transparency;
• Ensure that each employee complies with this policy and understands his or her responsibilities with respect to its implementation;
• Report annually on its efforts and environmental performance to the Board of Administrators, its employees and other stakeholders.

This environmental policy provides Insertech Angus with a framework for setting its environmental objectives and annually evaluating its performance through a continuous improvement process.

Marie-France Bellemare
General Manager

Revalidated on 3 July 2023

Insertech Angus is a non-profit organization that, since 1998, has been offering young adults in difficulty a six-month employee integration program in a computer equipment reuse workshop. To meet regulatory, economic and social challenges, Insertech maintains an environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001. The system applies to the entire organization, located on the Angus Technopole in Montreal.

The system covers all activities, products and services over which Insertech has control or can have an influence. It covers, in particular, the collection of electronic equipment, reconditioning of equipment, secure erasure of data and destruction of unusable disks, dismantling of components, resale of equipment, repair of customers equipment, internal and external training.

The environmental management system refers to all compliance obligations to which Insertech subscribes and which are directly applicable to environmental aspects, occupational health and safety and potential emergency situations, including those likely to have an environmental impact. These requirements apply in particular to federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations, such as the Loi sur la qualité de l’environnement (environment quality act), the Règlement sur les matières dangereuses (hazardous materials regulations), the Règlement sur la récupération et la valorisation des produits par les entreprises (regulations on the collection and valorization of products by enterprises), and the Règlement sur la Santé et sécurité au travail (occupational health and safety regulations).

Insertech’s environmental management system meets the expectations of its main stakeholders: the governments of Canada and Quebec, the City of Montreal, EPRA-Quebec, computer equipment suppliers, customers, the community, the owner of the premises occupied by Insertech. It also concerns Insertech’s commitments to its Board of Administrators and employees, to whom it provides training on the environmental aspects of its activities and on occupational health and safety.

As a provider of reuse services recognized by the EPRA-Quebec program, Insertech is committed to respecting the partnership agreement with EPRA-Quebec on the management and processing of electronic products and to respecting the Electronics Reuse and Refurbishing Standard (ERRS) for all equipment collected from businesses and the community.

The current societal trend places a strong emphasis on recycling devices at the end of their useful life rather than encouraging their reuse by another user, thus prolonging their life. This is an important environmental issue in Quebec but also an economic issue for Insertech. Insertech therefore carries out voluntary environmental awareness actions with companies and citizens, on compliance with the following hierarchy: reduction at source – reuse – recycling. Insertech encourages companies that have their equipment to focus on reuse before recycling.

Insertech also offers repair and training services to the public to reduce unnecessary consumption and extend the life of the equipment. Insertech encourages its customers to opt more for more responsible consumption choices, hence the growing interest in devices resulting from reuse with a lower environmental impact.

All Insertech’s activities aim to reduce the negative environmental impacts of technology and create positive social impacts for the community and the insertion of young people. Insertech’s environmental management system allows the organization to reduce the environmental risks and impacts of its activities, set objectives and measure their achievement, all with the aim of continuously improving its environmental performance.