Posted on 01/26/2013 2:16:35 PM PST by RBW in PA
MILFORD — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is reminding consumers and businesses that they are no longer be able to throw away their electronic devices with their trash.
Passed in 2010, the Pennsylvania Covered Device Recycling Act requires that consumers and businesses not dispose of covered devices, such as computers, laptops, computer monitors, televisions and tablets with their trash. This means that trash haulers will no longer take covered devices unless the municipality has a curbside electronics collection program that ultimately sends the devices to an electronics recycler. The law took effect Jan. 24.
“This law is an important step toward further reducing the amount of waste disposed in our landfills,” DEP Secretary Mike Krancer said. “There will be a host of positive impacts from this law, such as deriving economic benefits from precious metals found in electronics, eliminating heavy metals in the environment and encouraging environmental stewardship.”
Under the new law, the covered devices and their components must be properly recycled and may not be taken to, or accepted by, landfills or other solid waste disposal facilities for disposal.
The law also requires that manufacturers of the covered devices provide for the collection, transportation and recycling of these devices by establishing one-day events, permanent collection programs or mail-back programs for consumers. This is offered to consumers at no cost. Manufacturers must work with an electronics recycler that is properly permitted and certified to handle and process electronic waste.
Manufacturers must register their covered device brands with DEP and attach brand labels to those devices. Additionally, retailers who sell electronic covered devices may only sell devices with a manufacturer’s brand that is registered with DEP.
Consumers can also continue to recycle their electronics through a county or municipal electronic recycling program, if one is available. It is recommended that before taking any electronics to collection points or drop-off locations, consumers should first contact that location to see what types of electronics they accept.
Consumers can find more information on registered manufacturers and where to recycle their covered devices at www.dep.state.pa.us, keyword: Electronics Recycling.
Additional recycling information is available from county recycling coordinators, whose contact information can be found on DEP’s website, keyword: recycle, or through the Recycling Hotline at 1-800-346-4242.
1) manufacturers of the covered devices provide for the collection, transportation and recycling of these devices.
2) Manufacturers must work with an electronics recycler that is properly permitted and certified to handle and process electronic waste.
3) Manufacturers must register their covered device brands with DEP and attach brand labels to those devices.
Both Goodwill & VOA will take items locally.
Uh huh! It’s a back door tax.
I don’t know how much dreadfully harmful stuff such items leach into the ground surrounding modern landfills. But they are constructed better today than in the past.
So now you need to wrap ‘em in wet newspaper and put ‘em in a yard size leaf bag? Got it.
If you have any pre-1990 turntables, amplifiers, reel-to-reel tape decks, tuners, or receivers, there are many collectors and restorers who will buy them from you.
That works unless you want to pitch something that really is trashed and un-donateable, like an electronic thingamabob that burned out. Now you’re stuck with an orphan hunk of junk. I’m not highly persuaded that such items are significant hazards to the health of humans or wildlife. It would make more sense to engineer a route between the garbage man and Goodwill (and the like) and let the rubbish collection customer set out what they will.
somebody got a law passed to make some money.
The new American Way.
Find something to get regulated and
Make sure your business is the only place to go in order to obey the regulation.
It’s in my contract with my trash hauler (private) that I not put anything electronic in my trash, however the guys that pick it up told me they didn’t care what I put in the trash, they said the state requires that they put that clause in the contract (Illinois).
Oh yeah, they did say they’d rather I didn’t put any human remains in there.
None of the electronics I donated worked. G & VOA work with recycle folks.
No what you do is set it out and put a for sale sign on it with price and someone will steal it, a friend of mine couldn’t get the city to pick up his old washer and dryer did what I said, they were gone in a day.
And Rush Limbaugh is right (as usual) when he explained that Recycling is a Meaningless Scam.
By the way, I'm looking forward to the upcoming "Earth Day" in a few months. My next door neighbor and I fire up every motorized vehicle and machine we can think of, turn on all the lights and have a big barbeque with lots of meat and mesquite. The guy across the street, a Yankee from Nashua, NH, sure gets steamed! You should have see him when we planted our Confederate flags in our yards on Martin Luther King day earlier this week. He's one of those elitist whose hybrid sports the stupid "Co-exist" bumper sticker and brazenly refuses to embrace our Conservative Texas values. We do no violence against him but we sure do love to tweak him and his liberal ways.
There will always be boating accidents! :)
What I’ve found is that if you put out anything of this nature, the trash pickers will get it long before the municipal trash truck arrives. The lifespan of anything that has scrap value on the curb around here is a few hours.
This is what the law considers a “covered device”:
“A covered computer device and covered television device marketed and intended for use by a consumer.
Covered computer device - A desktop or notebook computer or computer monitor or peripheral, marketed and intended for use by a consumer.
Covered television device - An electronic device that contains a tuner that locks on to a selected carrier frequency and is capable of receiving and displaying television or video programming via broadcast, cable or satellite, including, without limitation, any direct view or projection television with a viewable screen of four inches or larger whose display technology is based on cathode ray tube, plasma, liquid crystal, digital light processing, liquid crystal on silicon, silicon crystal reflective display, light emitting diode or similar technology marketed and intended for use by a consumer primarily for personal purposes.
Peripheral - A keyboard, printer or any other device sold exclusively for external use with a computer that provides input into or output from the computer. “
more stupid laws
So what the heck is a New England Liberal doing in Texas?
Is he a two faced tax refugee? (I don’t want to pay taxes but I want you pay for implementing all of my Leftist ideals)
Or is he a technology transplant that came to Texas for a job that could never exist in NH because of regulations or prohibitive tax schemes?
That’s the glory of dumpsters, nobody knows who chucked what even if they can see it, and they’re probably hauled by a private company. Know where you neighborhood dumpsters are, they’re handy.
Probably just a way to get their customers to do the labor intensive presorting so they can sell it by the ton to the chinese, who incidently set fire to the whole thing, creating monstrous clouds of toxic smoke, then have unskilled labor sort through the smouldering mess for copper and other valuable materials.
Is he a two faced tax refugee? (I don’t want to pay taxes but I want you pay for implementing all of my Leftist ideals)
Or is he a technology transplant that came to Texas for a job that could never exist in NH because of regulations or prohibitive tax schemes?
It's the latter. He's been here for 15 years and is still considered the n00b in our neighborhood since the rest of us have been here for 17 years! :-) I'll admit that we when limit our conversations to only technology, he's a relatively decent chap and, admittedly, he does know his stuff.
Still, you'd think after a decade and half, this New England high-tech transplant would have embraced at least some of the Texas culture and Conservative values. But, he steadfastly clings to his Yankee ways. I'm from Pennsylvania originally but I guarantee you when I came to Texas, I assimilated thoroughly and quickly, making a point to lose that funny accent characteristic of Western Pennsylvania. Thus guy, on the other hand, still talks with that Kennedy-esque dialect and when we do chat with him, he always tell us how much better things are back in Nashua.
Summer 2011 was pretty brutal here with the long streak of 100+ degree days. We were hoping that would have sent him packing since he always complains about how he misses the snow. But no...things are too good here in ol' Redneck, Christian, gun-totin' Texas so he stays...and stays...and stays...
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