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Trashing electronics becomes illegal in New York
deseretnews.com ^ | Mary Esch

Posted on 12/31/2014 9:21:43 PM PST by BenLurkin

Starting Jan. 1, the final phase of New York's 2010 electronics recycling law takes effect, making it illegal for consumers to throw so-called "e-waste" in the garbage.

"Now you have to recycle it," said John Shegerian, CEO of Fresno, Calif.-based Electronic Recyclers International, which provides e-waste recycling services for New York City, Los Angeles and 150 other municipalities across the country. "You need to find a legitimate recycler and get your material to them."

Violators can be fined $100.

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TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; california; china; chirlanemccray; fresno; johnshegerian; losangeles; nannystate; newyork; newyorkcity; nypd
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To: BenLurkin

Throw it away in Jersey.


41 posted on 12/31/2014 10:58:12 PM PST by struggle
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To: marron

Well you KNOW that it’s not the mercury that stays in a landfill that worries ecologists the most. It’s the mercury that leaves it.

To that end you’d think these bulbs would be encased in some kind of plastic skin.


42 posted on 12/31/2014 10:59:31 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BenLurkin
Violators can be fined $100.

And get sucker-choked by Danny Pantaleo...

43 posted on 12/31/2014 11:06:49 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: BlueLancer
Just put it in a box, wrap it up like a gift, put it in a bag, and leave it unattended in a McDonalds for a minute.

Your theory is correct.

Honest truth. I was staying at a lady friends in NYC several years ago and helped her to clean out her apartment. One of the things she was discarding was an old umbrella.

Just to see what would happen I put the umbrella outside her front door which was at street level and it disappeared in less than 5 minutes.

44 posted on 12/31/2014 11:08:01 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: BenLurkin

I have an easy fix for this: give your useless electronics to illegals to discard as they wish, the NYC powers that be will do nothing about it just like the BLM Feds do nothing about illegals trashing Fed lands.


45 posted on 12/31/2014 11:08:32 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: BenLurkin

And who’s going to enforce this?


46 posted on 12/31/2014 11:20:18 PM PST by nickfaith
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To: Joe 6-pack
"That will work until the Electronics Registration Act of 2016 is passed and goes into effect... "

LOL!
And the GOP-e would probably be all for it -- just like they are all for Obama's amnesty plan.

47 posted on 12/31/2014 11:29:53 PM PST by StormEye
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

And where do those legitimate recyclers send the discarded product?

Image results for electronic waste in china
http://www.google.com/images?q=electronic+waste+in+china&sa=X&oi=image_result_group


48 posted on 01/01/2015 12:01:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MaxMax

“Everything is illegal in NY.”

It’s illegal in Illinois too.


49 posted on 01/01/2015 12:10:22 AM PST by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: plain talk

I’m guessing that Mayor DiBlasio will now create a whole department of TrashMaids that will cruise the trash cans and hand out tickets with the $100 fines. It is just another way to grow the size of Big Brother government and create more revenue.


50 posted on 01/01/2015 3:13:19 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting those images. I was telling one of my kids the other day about this.

Here in America we have triple-lined landfills that are designed not to leak - ever.

But instead we put are junk onto ships and burn fuel and emit CO2 (not that it has anything to do with climate - but for arguments sake...)

Then they get dumped into some poor village in China where they take them apart, burn the plastics off the metal, I imagine use solvents/chemicals to seperate the metals, and dump the crap in the ditch in their yard.

I’m thinking that it is probably just as, if not more, environmentaly damaging than mining for more copper, silver, gold, etc.


51 posted on 01/01/2015 3:23:11 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: BenLurkin

Staples has free recycling.


52 posted on 01/01/2015 3:27:17 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: BenLurkin

Around here, they have periodic recycling events at local lets-get-high skools. They collect hazardous material and electronics junk.

The last one I went to was a madhouse. All the feeder roads to the location were a traffic jam. I had to sit in line for close to an hour, the nazis that were running the event were rude and nasty, and when I finally got to where my junk was unloaded, one moron let one of the carts they were using roll down a hill and it put a nice dent in the side of my car.

Never again. There are other ways to get rid of stuff.


53 posted on 01/01/2015 3:47:15 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Iron Munro

I have a sony betamax sitting in my basement gathering dust.


54 posted on 01/01/2015 3:55:51 AM PST by xp38
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To: struggle

That’s exactly what’s going to happen in the NJ Meadowlands: “Leave the e-trash; get the canolies”.


55 posted on 01/01/2015 4:03:18 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Fresh Wind

A neighboring town has huge containers near their public works building; people go there and dump their own. Works fine.


56 posted on 01/01/2015 4:04:15 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: doug from upland
Stay close to keep an eye on your car, leave it unlocked, and leave the electronics on the seat. It will be stolen.

That can be risky. If you do that, be sure to leave the windows open. I know someone whose car was broken into. The thieves broke a window to get into an unlocked car. Thieves aren't the smartest people on earth.

57 posted on 01/01/2015 4:05:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: MaxMax
Everything is illegal in NY.

Except Sharpton, and he should be illegal, but do you think they might pass a law, making it illegal to exhale CO2?

58 posted on 01/01/2015 4:10:29 AM PST by Mark17 (So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my savior, this stranger of Galilee)
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To: P-Marlowe

And that, my FRiend is exactly the plan...The idiot up the street with a No Fracking sign....might as well say “dump your e-waste here”.


59 posted on 01/01/2015 4:12:05 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: BlueLancer
Just put it in a box, wrap it up like a gift, put it in a bag, and leave it unattended in a McDonalds for a minute.

Funny and apropos - took me back to when stationed in Italy. if you had something you wanted to get rid of, all you had to do was set it on the walk by your car and go back in for a minute as if you had forgotten something. Even trash bags filled with trash would disappear withing a minute or two.

60 posted on 01/01/2015 4:51:19 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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