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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Throw it away in Jersey.
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.
And get sucker-choked by Danny Pantaleo...
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.
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.
And who’s going to enforce this?
LOL!
And the GOP-e would probably be all for it -- just like they are all for Obama's amnesty plan.
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
“Everything is illegal in NY.”
It’s illegal in Illinois too.
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.
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.
Staples has free recycling.
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.
I have a sony betamax sitting in my basement gathering dust.
That’s exactly what’s going to happen in the NJ Meadowlands: “Leave the e-trash; get the canolies”.
A neighboring town has huge containers near their public works building; people go there and dump their own. Works fine.
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.
Except Sharpton, and he should be illegal, but do you think they might pass a law, making it illegal to exhale CO2?
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”.
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.
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