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Every state has its own specifics to laws pertaining to electronic and computer recycling. Each statute goes into specifics on many points in fees and proper business procedures. Please review some of these laws below as they may apply to your state.
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Arkansas: Law passed in 2007 imposes landfill disposal fees on compacted and uncompacted solid waste to support a computer and electronic equipment recycling program. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in California: Law passed in 2003 requires an Advance Recycling Fee of $6-$10 charged at the point of sale on video display devices.
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Connecticut: Law passed in 2007 requires manufacturers of TVs, laptops, desktops, and computer monitors to responsible for the costs of processing their branded products (and in certain cases orphans, as well) that are delivered to recyclers as of January 1, 2009. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Maine: Manufacturers of TVs and computer monitors are responsible for the costs of processing their branded products (and in certain cases orphans, as well) that are delivered to consolidators.
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Maryland: Manufacturers of more than 1000 video display devices (as of October 2007) per year must register with the state and pay an annual $5000 fee that is deposited in a fund for making grants for local collection programs. After October 2007, the initial registration fee for any new manufacturer is $10000. Manufacturers can reduce the annual fee to $500 by establishing an approved computer takeback program.
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Massachusetts: Regulation bans CRTs from disposal, incineration, or transfer for disposal, at a solid waste disposal facility since April 2000. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Minnesota: Law passed in 2007 requires manufacturers of video display devices to recycle 60% of their market sales weight in 07-08, and 80% from July 2008 on. Ban of CRTs from mixed municipal solid waste passed separately and was effective as of July 2006.
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in New Hampshire: Law signed in 2006 bans video display devices from NH landfills and incinerators as of July 1, 2007. Video display devices defined as a "visual display component of a television or a computer, whether separate or integrated with a computer central processing unit/box, and includes a cathode ray tube, liquid crystal display, gas plasma, digital light processing, or other image projection technology, greater than 4 inches when measured diagonally, and its case, interior wires, and circuitry."
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in New Jersey: Producer responsibility law passed in January 2008 which requires manufacturers to pay a registration fee to the NJDEP and establish a collection, transportation and recycling system, either independently or jointly, for the recovery of computers and televisions. Fees generated will be used to fund the program and issue payments to authorized processors for the recycling of used electronic devices. Recycling programs must be implemented by January 1, 2010. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in New York City: Producer responsibility law passed in April 2008 which requires manufacturers to submit plans for collection, transportation and recycling of computers, monitors, printers and televisions. Recycling programs must be implemented by July 1, 2009. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in North Carolina: Law passed in 2007 requires computer equipment (excludes TVs) manufacturers to develop and implement recycling plans as of January 2009. Manufacturers must fully cover the costs of processing discarded computer equipment received from discarded computer equipment collectors.
Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Oregon: Law passed in 2007 requires manufacturers of desktops, laptops, monitors, and TVs to participate in a recycling plan or pay a fee to the State Contractor program. Recycling programs begin on January 1, 2009. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Texas: Law passed in 2007 requires computer equipment (excludes TVs) manufacturers to develop and implement recycling plans as of January 2009. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Virginia: Law passed in 2007 requires computer equipment (excludes TVs) manufacturers to develop and implement recycling plans to be in effect as of July 2009. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in Washington: Law signed in March 2006 requires producer responsibility as of January 1, 2009. Manufacturers of televisions, computer monitors, desktop and laptops computers, are required to join the standard plan or create an independent plan to manage their equivalent share of collected products. Laws for Electronics & Computer Recycling in West Virginia: Producer Responsibility law signed on April 1, 2008 that applies to a manufacturer that manufactured an average of more than 1,000 covered electronic devices per year in the three-year period immediately preceding the initial registration. Manufacturers must register with the state no later than January 1, 2009 and pay a $10,000 initial registration fee if no take-back plan has been implemented or $3,000 if they have an implemented take-back plan. Each subsequent year requires a $5,000 registration fee for manufacturers without take-back programs and $500 for manufacturers with take-back programs implemented the prior year. All registration fees collected will be deposited into a special account in the State Treasury to be known as the Covered Electronic Device Takeback Fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for recycling grants to counties and municipalities for recycling of electronic waste. Federal - US EPA In August 2005, EPA finalized the mercury-containing equipment component of the orginial proposed rule.
In July 2006, EPA has also finalized a regulation governing the waste management requirements for Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) that was originally proposed in 2002. The CRT rule became effective on 1/29/07. |
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