Posted on 12/31/2014 9:21:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
Starting Jan. 1, the final phase of New York's 2010 electronics recycling law takes effect, making it illegal for consumers to throw so-called "e-waste" in the garbage.
"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. "You need to find a legitimate recycler and get your material to them."
Violators can be fined $100.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Not a bad idea actually. 50 years from now it wont be any Americans living here.
I’m very serious.
Unfortunately my family still owns a brownstone in NYC so I’m fully aware of what goes on. Those laws are a landlord’s nightmare. The tenants don’t give a hoot about those laws.
Here in Upstate NY we recycle if we feel like it or if the recyclables take too much space in a garbage bag and we don’t want to pay another $2.00 for another garbage bag. This just shows how much a scam the recycling laws are. It’s all about money and not about landfills.
Will New Yorkers be surprised when all the adgets just end up thrown on the sidewalk?
One crew digs the ditch, the other crew fills it back in...
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