Polytechnique Montréal has launched a Canada-wide initiative that brings together 20 Canadian and international universities and industrial partners to improve the way electric and electronic equipment waste is reused and recycled, and to promote eco-design. The Collaborative Research and Training Experience in Sustainable Electronics and Eco-Design (CREATE SEED) has received $1.65M in funding from the NSERC CREATE program to optimize the way valuable materials are gathered from e-waste, while at the same time rethinking how the electronics supply chain functions. Canadian partners include researchers from McGill University, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the University of British Columbia, as well as support from HEC Montréal, the Université de Montréal, and the Université de Sherbrooke.