$100 fine if you place e-waste to the curb in NYS after Jan 1st. Demand that your community enforce this law. If this new deadline is ignored by the authorities the e-waste litter and pollution will go on and recycling industry misses a fantastic opportunity to create more jobs and a cleaner environment. This January deadline for homeowners who toss old TV’s and computers at the curb, where scrappers come and smash them for valuable metals and leave them about your neighborhood and also make the remains worthless to recyclers, needs the teeth of an enforceable law. The great big questions is will this new law be enforced, or is it simply greenwashing? Here’s an interesting question: What if you see a discarded TV or computer on the curb and you called 311 after Jan 1st and reported it? What if everyone did that? Be interesting to see if the ‘enforcement gap’ of this part of the e-waste law gets some teeth. More on Recycling in our area: rochesterenvironment/recycling.htm
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:09:27 +0000
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