Lawmakers don’t even pretend to work for the voters who elect them. They rule over their subjects, they don’t represent them, they rule.
Toss it into your liberal neighbor’s trash can.
Actually this makes me want to drive my electronic waste to NY and dump it in some pristine wilderness....
No way they would ever catch you. Like the trash dudes driving the trucks with automated pick up of the trash cans are going to notice?
People will just toss the old electronics into their basements and attics.
Their houses will be chock full of old electronics.
When people pass on, their houses will be like giant time capsules packed with historical electronic artifacts.
Stay close to keep an eye on your car, leave it unlocked, and leave the electronics on the seat. It will be stolen.
We have been (semi-voluntarily) doing that in our community for several years now. It has not yet been mandated, but if you put them by the curb on bulk pickup day they’ll recycle them. There’s also a small trailer body at the recycling center for anyone who wants to drop them off and not wait for the once-a-month pickup.
We’ve had e-waste collection for years. One Saturday per month, along with other hazardous waste (old paint cans, pesticides, etc.) allows plenty of time to smash hard drives for security and clean the garage. It is a well-organized drive-thru at the county dump, with additional strategic locations available quarterly. Truly is a painless experience.
Great. Now they are all going to come to Connecticut to dump their electronic trash.
>> making it illegal for consumers to throw so-called “e-waste” in the garbage.
The voters need to focus on g-waste.
Everything is illegal in NY.
The law of unintended consequences... squared.
I was reading this law and it is far crazier than it sounds.
This article is very misleading as to the complexity and ease of getting rid of the stuff.
In the past you could just drop this stuff off at a recycle center that handled it and be done with it. No charge.
Now you are supposed to contact the manufacturer and make arrangements with them. Of course you can imagine that many manufactures are no longer in business or are not set up to do this.
If you try to just drop it off at a recycle center then they can charge you for it(according to the state). It was free.
The law is so complicated that it is really impossible to figure out. The law is as complicated as ObamaCare. Anyone who can figure it out...Good luck....Here is a link to the law... You need to follow other links at this link to try to understand any of it:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/65583.html
Of course the way it should be is that you drop the stuff off at certain locations and those locations deal with the manufacturers if need be. The state should set up rules with them as to how to handle what is dropped off. The only regulation and hassle for the consumer should be to drop the stuff off and be done with it. Which is basically the way it was. Now no one is going to want to recycle at all. The state has turned recycling into a royal cluster....
Also while some items you would think are covered don’t seem to be while other items that are covered are absurd and it easy to the law was made by politicians who have “feelings”, but no common sense.
For instance, If you want to get rid of an old computer mouse then they go to great extremes to make sure the mouse Cord is covered. Yet many appliances and devices are not included in the law. Good luck figuring it all out.
The only thing still legal is forcing public employees to attend homo parades
I have four old computers to trash and then send to the official electronics salvage. First, I remove the hard drive and then I just kind of trash the rest of it. It works for me.
BTW as far as I could tell... A DVD player or a VCR is covered under the law, but A CD player is not. This is how absurd the law is. And instead of just saying computer Equipment they parcel it off with things like “computer servers” It was obviously written by Idiots.
I’m predicting vacant lots filled with electronics.
This has been the law for years in CA. We have a 2x-a-month drop-off at the dump. We make about 1 trip per year to drop off stuff. It really isn’t all that bad.
Good luck with that. I’m still waiting for the breaking news headline that people all over the country are just dumping those new-fangled curly bulbs in the trash without calling hazmat and we have a growing mercury spill epidemic on our hands which will cost billions to clean up, three times more than we’d have spent by now if we’d stuck with good old simple painless poisonless incandescent light bulbs.