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.
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.
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
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.
Here in the unenlightened exurbs of Charlotte, we take the attitude that if it fits in the rollout bin, the (private) trash-haulers will dispose of it. Just what do they do with my old electronics? I don’t ask, they don’t tell.
Do what I do with crap the trash won’t pick up - get a shovel and bury it in your back yard. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Where I is, about every street there is someone with a truck doing metal recycling, and they even took a basketball hoop of mine!
Because they don't work for us; we work for them.