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.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
There used to be a hazardous waste landfill in northern IN near where I lived. The majority of the trucks dumping there had NY and NJ plates.
I’d have no problem returning the favor
More specifically, toss it and a bunch of other electronic junk in your neighbor’s trash can then call the authorities and anonymously report them to the authorities. Watch the fun.
Repeat every other week or even once a month.
The law of unintended consequences... squared.
“Great. Now they are all going to come to Connecticut to dump their electronic trash.”
I see many Railroad crossing ditches filled with E-junk like VCR’s and big-screen tube TV’s in your future. in your future.
Put a pile of electronics on the sidewalk, place a sign nearby that says: "Electronics, $1000 or best offer". Walk away.
Should be gone within the hour...
Since I live in the suburbs in the south I have trouble relating to what you wrote. I am sure you are correct. However I just can’t imagine people going through trash cans. This is insane. So glad I don’t live in New York
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.
Everything is illegal in NY. <<
Except for “illegals”..../s.....Funny world we live in....Happy New Year!!
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.
Whoa, just read post #29. I retract my post #35. This law looks like typical stupid NY. I lived there for a few years. What a joke of a state. Beautiful scenery, though.
Or the headline informing us that people all over the country are dumping those new-fangled curly bulbs in the trash without calling hazmat and it just doesn't matter, there is no appreciable harm, the relative volume in a landfill being vanishingly small. It just doesn't matter.
The same mind that invented the need to call hazmat over a light bulb is the same kind of mind that outlawed the good old simple incandescent bulb. The kind that incessantly seeks power but should never be allowed anywhere near it.
Well that may be the case as well! My point was the unintended consequences aspect of lib control freaks, so we’re still on the same page...I think.
Yes, in my long-winded way I was agreeing with you.
:)
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