Recycling

Aevitas in Quebec is an industry leader in recycling, ensuring that your waste streams are properly managed and diverted from landfill. As a leading waste management provider, we provide our customers the ability to easily recycle transformer oil, batteries, and all styles of lamps. Waste materials are dismantled, treated and sent for reuse at one of our Canada-wide recycling facilities. Our recycling services are performed under strict adherence to government regulations and laws, and include:

Our company is the largest lamp recycler in Canada, having pioneered a variety of lamp recycling techniques that can accommodate many needs. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and other energy-efficient lighting including linear fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps contain small amounts of mercury (otherwise known as quicksilver), an element essential to achieving energy savings. As effective as it is at enabling white light, mercury is also highly toxic, and can release mercury contaminated phosphor powder or mercury vapour should a mercury-bearing lamp breaks (especially when it’s at end of life). Mercury does not decompose or break down in landfill, but it does bio-accumulate in our environment and in living organisms. Unlike specialty companies, Aevitas Quebec makes it incredibly easy to recycle lamps. Our company is the only one of its kind in Canada that can also recycle PCB ballasts, fixtures, transformer oil, batteries, and other electrical equipment. We also manage a resource recovery program for obsolete, end-of-life, and non-compliant assets. Please contact our recycling experts to learn more about our lamp recycling services, or our other recycling services that includes Recycle-By-Mail, transformer oil recycling, resource recovery, electrical equipment recycling, and battery recycling. Request your certificate of recycling here.

Our company has partnered with Loomis to offer economical recycling services to small quantity waste generators in Quebec and across Canada. Aevitas Quebec has a Recycle-By-Mail program that is ideal for shipping small quantities of bulbs, fixtures, ballasts, mercury bearing materials*, batteries, and lamps. Our recycling services and shipping containers are conveniently available in one all-inclusive price; all you have to do is click, pack and ship:

• Go to aevitas.ca and request the recycling box or boxes that best suit your needs.
• We will forward you your recycling box via courier within 24 hours (or up to one week depending on your location).
• Inside your box you will find a shipping label and plastic liner. Printed on the outside of your box is a set of instructions detailing how to collect and package items for recycling.
• Once your box is full, call Loomis at (800) 256-2247 to request a pickup.
• Loomis will return your box to us where it’s contents will be recycled.

To learn more about our Recycle-By-Mail program, or our other recycling services such as transformer oil recycling, resource recovery, electrical equipment recycling, battery recycling, and lamp recycling, please contact Aevitas in Quebec.

*Not all materials can be shipped using this program. See container description for compatible items.

Aevitas in Quebec is a leading environmental services industry specialist that offers electrical utility companies and industrial manufacturers exemplary transformer oil recycling services. Our fleet of oil tankers and trucks permit us to drain and transport small or large volumes of transformer oil throughout Canada. For environmentally sensitive locations, our transformer oil recycling experts deploy our portable "spill containment berm", allowing our tanker or trucks full volume to be contained in the event of an emergency spill or rupture. Our Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) certified transformer oil recycling facility receives, treats, and refines used transformer oil, removing virtually all PCB content within it to produce new, high grade transformer oil for re-sale in the transformer market.

MODEF60 Mineral Insulating Oil
A recycled transformer oil that is napthenic based, MODEF60 mineral insulating oil meets existing ASTM quality standards and is shipped throughout Canada. Our MODEF60 mineral insulating oil can be supplied by Aevitas in Quebec in either Type I or Type II formulations. Our type II "supercharged" inhibited transformer oil (available in pails, totes, or drums) can be added to existing transformer oil in order to halt the oxidation process that naturally occurs within transformers over time. Please view technical information for our type I and type II transformer oils by visiting:

For our clients who experience long term transformer oil storage issues, our 700,000 litre capacity, geosynthetic membrane, concrete contained transformer oil tank farm can help. We also maintain a supply of silicone transformer fluid which is recycled and reprocessed for use in either silicone fluid level top ups or retro-filling on existing silicone filled transformers. For more information on our silicone transformer fluid, please visit MSDS silicone fluid. Should your industrial transformer require an oil change, refilling, or draining, trust the transformer oil recycling services from Aevitas Quebec. Our staff works diligently to perfect our transformer oil recycling services, and our other recycling services, to deliver our clients the very best results in the Canadian environmental services industry. Contact Aevitas in Quebec to learn more about our transformer oil recycling services, or our resource recovery, electrical equipment recycling, battery recycling, lamp recycling, and Recycle-By-Mail services.

Aevitas in Quebec specializes in recycling non-compliant, obsolete, or end-of-life assets for reuse. Our resource recovery program maximizes value and provides companies with capital that can be placed back into their operations, thus producing revenue, creating tax savings, and boosting profits. Other than financial advantages, our resource recovery services also help our customers to reduce their environmental footprint by keeping their unwanted items out of landfills. Our resource recovery team uses the most current and effective methods for recycling more than 95% of the parts from assets, and for those parts that cannot be recycled we offer assured destruction or disposal services. Allow us to put your assets to good use, help you reduce your environmental impact, avoid costly garbage collection and disposal fees, and improve your company's public image. Please contact us for more information on our resource recovery services, and don’t hesitate to ask us about our other recycling services; transformer oil recycling, electrical equipment recycling, battery recycling, lamp recycling, and Recycle-By-Mail.

In addition to lamp recycling, transformer oil recycling, resource recovery, and our Recycle-By-Mail program, Aevitas Quebec also provides outstanding battery recycling, and electrical equipment recycling services. To further explore any of our recycling services, please contact our Aevitas Quebec team of recycling experts.