New Law Prohibits E-Waste From Going Into landfills
By: Dave Belmondo
Updated: January 25, 2013
A new, statewide law went into effect Thursday that prohibits landfills and other solid waste disposal facilities from accepting certain types of e-waste. It's called the Covered Device Recycling Act.
Electronic products constitute one of the fastest growing stream of today's consumer and commercial waste..
The new law means that waste haulers will no longer be permitted to pick up covered devices including desktop and laptop computers, computer monitors, computer peripherals and televisions.
Harborcreek Township supervisors addressed the new law at their township meeting and are now looking for an option for Harborcreek residents to be able to dispose of covered devices and household chemicals like paints and solvents
The hope to have a hauler in place by April that will bring the e-waste to a recycling plant and not the landfill
Electronic products constitute one of the fastest growing stream of today's consumer and commercial waste..
The new law means that waste haulers will no longer be permitted to pick up covered devices including desktop and laptop computers, computer monitors, computer peripherals and televisions.
Harborcreek Township supervisors addressed the new law at their township meeting and are now looking for an option for Harborcreek residents to be able to dispose of covered devices and household chemicals like paints and solvents
The hope to have a hauler in place by April that will bring the e-waste to a recycling plant and not the landfill
Comments
This is a GREAT thing to do for our environment, I wish the Newscast would have said how much it will cost people to dispose of all of these tho, or if it was free to use...
Micheline M.
January 26, 2013 at 11:41 am
