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June 29th 2007
EIA urges a Federal Electronics
Recycling Law
The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
is fervently promoting a national electronics recycling plan. This
plan would prompt Congress to create a uniform federal law for all
50 states.
EIA Interim President and CEO Matt
Flanigan comments, “This is an issue crying out for a national
solution. These laws vary dramatically from state to state, picking
winners and losers among electronics manufacturers and retailers. If
fifty legislatures rewrite business models state by state, consumers
could see higher costs and fewer choices – all without any
commensurate environmental benefit. Congress can do right by the
environment, consumers and the electronics industry by adopting a
national recycling plan.”
The EIA is trying to find one solution
for all instead of a “patchwork of electronics recycling laws”.
States are seeing the reason for this push because there are twice
as many state electronic recycling laws as there were a year ago.
This rise in electronics recycling laws is being met by even more
states that are considering changing their own standards for
recycling.
This plan would include many of the
services that PC Recycler already offers such as computer recycling
and processing other electronic equipment. This electronic equipment
includes end-of-life computers, monitors, printers, televisions,
etc. The majority of the recycling would probably be conducted by
third parties. Ideally, the manufacturers would not be able to sell
their IT products unless they have a recovery plan. The recovery
plan must offer to collect and recover the IT equipment at no
additional charge to the consumer other than a nominal fee at the
time of purchase.
The overall goal of this national
legislative initiative is to make sure that all recycling service
providers have sound management practices. These actions and
improvements are in hopes that a program will be set in place to
collect and recycle products in a manner that is “convenient for
household consumers” and at no cost to them.
For more information,
please refer to the
EIA’s official website.
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