CESA Program Products

BC Program

The CESA BC program captures a number of the electronic/electrical products captured by Schedule 3 of the BC Recycling Regulation. Please note some products listed in Schedule 3 are covered by other stewardship programs.

Important Member Update: New EHF Rates for "Part 1" Small Appliances Effective June 1, 2013. Read more.

Part 1 of the CESA program (small appliances) launched on October 1, 2011 and includes many types of small appliances. For reporting purposes, these are split into 14 categories.

• View the complete list of Part 1 Program Products and Fee Rates (small appliances only)
• View the chronological list of changes to the Part 1 Product list since Oct 1, 2011

The CESA program expanded on July 1, 2012 to cover additional product categories, including power tools, exercise equipment, sewing machines, and arts, crafts, hobby, sports and leisure devices. For reporting purposes, these are split into 7 additional categories (for a total of 21).   
 

• View the complete list of Part 2 Program Products added as of July 1, 2012.
• View the chronological list of changes to the Part 2 Product list since April 1, 2012

Please note that items that are no electric, are built/wired in and/or are part of other programs are excluded from the program.

For clarification purposes, CESA may add additional product examples to the lists of included and not included products. To figure out whether a product should be included in the program, see the CESA Product Definition Decision Tree.

Products must be specifically listed as Designated Very Small Items by the CESA program in order to be included in category 14 (Designated Very Small Items – Part 1) or category 21 (Designated Very Small Items – Part 2).

If your product(s) does not seem to be on this list or you are unsure about which category it belongs to, please contact memberservices@cesarecycling.ca