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Growth of E-Waste May Lead to National 'E-Fee'

Posted by Zonk on from the e-xactly-what-we-e-want dept.

jcatcw writes "A bill in Congress would add a recycling charge to the cost of laptop PCs, computer monitors, televisions and some other electronic devices, according to a story at Computerworld. The effort to control what's called e-waste could lead to a national 'e-fee' that would be paid just like a sales tax. Nationwide the cost could amount to $300 million per year. Already, California, Washington, Maryland and Maine have approved electronics recycling laws, and another 21 states plus Puerto Rico, are considering them."

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  1. Proposal by kahrytan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or we can just gather up all our trash into giant garbage ball and shoot it into space. Then we let the people in the year 3000 worry about our trash.

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  2. Re:Windows by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    it would be fair to tax the source of the problem: poorly programmed operating systems, like Windows.

    If we could put that tax revenue back into alternative fuels, find a way to tap the energy from Apple users' excess smugness, and achieve a 10% reduction in the energy needed to install Linux; we could go carbon neutral in no time!

    -Eric

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  3. Pffff by Rorschach1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    REAL geeks don't need e-waste recycling - they just hold on to their stuff until the Computer History Museum offers to haul it away.

    (Ok, so I'd still be holding on to the VAX, but with my girlfriend moving in there just wasn't room for both. It was a tough choice.)