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Here in California, SB20 was supposed to address this, 15 years ago.. but without explanation, the bill disappeared into closed session run personally by CA Sen
by mistrial9 3y ago
Here in California, SB20 was supposed to address this, 15 years ago.. but without explanation, the bill disappeared into closed session run personally by CA Senator Byron Sher of Palo Alto, and they re-wrote it completely to simpley make a "bottle deposit" on new displays sold retail, with the funds applied to recycle old CRT TVs (edit). The State of California is the fund manager. The entire system worked about as well as you might think. Many, many small recyclers tried to participate and went out of business due to costs with insufficient reimbursement.
It is a painful and drawn-out process to fail as a small business. Unless you have lived it, you probably dont know. That whole opportunity in E*Waste was bungled IMHO, and now much larger, much more impactful ecological processes are the priority. Your fresh water ways and heavy metals accumulation in the food chain, are ugly sores from the consumer electronics fiesta.
- mistrial9 3y agothis is a page from a professional lobby in Sacramento, summarizing (spin) the progress in California recycling electronics.[0] notice that it skips quickly in the description from "the intent" to CED (covered electronic devices). Well, the tonnage stats they point to are exactly because it is big, old livingroom television sets that are being collected as Covered Electronic Devices. Those program numbers skip many details about program implementation. This info page is written by people on salary for decades. test -- walk to any public shopping area in California and look around on the ground and along the paved areas. Notice the amount of consumer electronics you see as ground waste. [0] https://www.cawrecycles.org/californias-existing-e-waste-recycling-laws https://www.cawrecycles.org/californias-existing-e-waste-rec...