Keep Cool encourages Ontarians to permanently retire and recycle their old, inefficient room air conditioners and dehumidifiers and to adopt cleaner, more efficient cooling alternatives.

YES! Keep Cool is back this June! Join us at Toronto Hydro’s Great Exchange events to exchange your old room air conditioners, dehumidifiers and incandescent light bulbs for valuable rewards.

Here's what you can exchange this June, courtesy of Toronto Hydro: 

• Exchange up to five incandescent light bulbs from home for five FREE CFLs;
• Exchange your old, inefficient room air conditioner for a $25 gift card and;
• Exchange your old dehumidifier for a $10 gift card!

We will be at over 35 events scheduled across the City:

• Visit us the first three weekends in June from 10 am – 5 pm at a Toronto Rona, The Home Depot and Walmart stores; or
• One of 7 select Community Environment Days in June.

Visit Toronto Hydro’s event schedule for locations.

Since the Keep Cool launch in 2002:

• Over 44,000 room air conditioners have been retired and responsibly recycled
• Nearly 30 MW and over 15,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases have been prevented
• In 2009, more than 1,300 dehumidifiers were collected and recycled through the expanded Keep Cool program.

Program Participants receive up to a $25 or $10 gift card and free, environmentally-responsible recycling services for bringing in their old room air conditioner or dehumidifier. 

Our Retail Partners, provide consumers with an added incentive to shop at their stores and provides potential program participants with easily accessible drop-off locations across Toronto.

Our Utility Partner, Toronto Hydro, raises public awareness of the importance of energy conservation, and achieves measurable reductions in summer peak electricity demand. In 2010, Toronto Hydro is also recycling and responsibly decommissioning the collected room air conditioners and dehumidifiers.

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