Show me the math!
According to Apple, a single smartphone produces a whopping 84kg of CO2. Can you believe it? Last year, we breathed new life into over 20,000 phones, which means we prevented 1,700,000 KG of CO2 emissions from clouding up our atmosphere. That's the equivalent of 397 gasoline powered cars driving for a year.
Buying or selling with Orchard means you're doing your part in protecting our planet
🚮 Less E-Waste: Together we saved 20,000 pounds of e-waste from going to landfills in 2024.
♻️ More re-used parts: We also prevented around 2,000 pounds of perfectly functional batteries and screens from going to waste!
📦 Carbon Neutral Shipping: Every package we ship is now carbon neutral!
Setting the standard
Because we wanted to help establish the standard for the used electronics industry, we got our R2 Certification. Short for "Responsible Recycling", R2 is a global standard for the used electronics industry, with one major pillar being best practice in terms of reuse and sustainable practices. We earned our R2v3 certification in summer 2023 and proudly passed our first renewal audit in 2024 to ensure that
🔬We do extensive testing of every device we sell.
🧼 We wipe all data off of every device that reaches our facility.
♻️ We dispose of any unusable parts in an environmentally responsible way.
Coming soon: Our first ever eWaste drive!
Do you have a box or drawer of old gadgets that you're not sure what to do with? We're planning our first ever eWaste drive here in Toronto. Come drop off a box of e-junk and we'll send it off to our partners who specialize in electronics recycling, and will grind it down into its base element for reuse in making shiny new gadgets.
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📍 213 Sterling Road, Toronto, ON M6R 2B2
