Trashing electronics becomes illegal in New York

deseretnews.com ^ | Mary Esch

[sergeantdave]

Extracting precious metals from computer circuit boards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CKbNOJvEJs

Singapore, Japan get rich on Bangalore’s e-waste

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Singapore-Japan-get-rich-on-Bangalores-e-waste/articleshow/22643100.cms

[beef]

Recycling laws make sense to me if they make it easy and convenient to do so. But they way it is developing, with fees and obtuse regulations, it is becoming a form of punishment for buying all that “stuff”.

[Iron Munro]

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

I have a stash of treasured movies on Betamax tapes I just can't toss out because they aren't available on CD or VHS.

This might very well be the year I stumble onto an almost new Betamax player at the Goodwill store for only $3.00!

[Ditter]

Can you give me a reasonable reason for this? If it is broken and unfixable what is wrong with throwing it away?

[bert]

precisely my thought

[Chickensoup]

Big money to be made by e-wasters.

Another regulatory boondoggle to provide payola for the friends of the powerful.

[Iron Munro]

And where do those legitimate recyclers send the discarded product?

Not so long ago my local newspaper ran a story revealing that the county recycling center couldn't handle the volume that we good citizens send them for recycling.

So they just reload an average of 40% on trash trucks and haul it back across the county to be buried in the garbage land fill.

I guess you could look at it as another government job creation program.

[PapaBear3625]

In PA, stores like Best Buy will accept old electronics (like old TV and computer monitors) and recycle them for you.

[Fresh Wind]

Nice Betamax players bring good money on eBay.

[muir_redwoods]

Wipe all the surfaces clean, put it in a big garbage bag and dump it in a dumpster. Your taxes pay for something. They make me buy these crappy CFL bulbs; when one breaks or burns out it goes right in the regular garbage. It’s not my problem to deal with the unintended consequences of government mandates.

[goodnesswins]

Are you serious?

[FreedomPoster]

You have to wonder if the law wasn’t written by Waste Management or some similar large rent-seeking corporation that will profit from that mess.

[Chickensoup]

You have to wonder if the law wasn’t written by Waste Management or some similar large rent-seeking corporation that will profit from that mess.

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Most of these laws are written by crony-capitalists who want legislated business with no risk.

[CodeToad]

They did something like this in Colorado, so when HDTV became the law people couldn’t toss their TVs so they tossed them by the side of the road.

[eartrumpet]

"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.

Looks like at least one person is thrilled with the new law...

[FreedomPoster]

Rent seeking is at the heart of crony capitalism, AKA Fascism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

[Chickensoup]

Never heard the term before but, boy is there a lot of it in this leftist state.

[sheana]

Here you pay a recycling fee when you buy monitors, etc. We have one place set up to recycle everything that is only open 3-4 hrs. per day. They’ve made it all a pain.
We throw everything in the garbage.
My neighbors actually got one of those big blue recycling bins so I guess now I’ll throw the big stuff in her can. lol

[Lazamataz]

Not a day goes by that I don’t praise God for leading me out of New York and into Georgia.

[Sacajaweau]

There was as time when we saved our newspapers and sold them to the junk man. Now I have to pay the junk man.

Same with tires and batteries...

Just another to rob the good guys.