British Columbia To Charge Recycling Fee

An anonymous reader writes "Next week the province of British Columbia will begin adding a recycling fee to new computers and TVs to pay for their free electronics recycling program. The list of what is acceptable for recycling is short, namely computers, printers, and TVs — you cannot recycle personal audio players or cell phones. What is unclear is whether the definition of 'desktop computer' includes self-built computers, and if so, their plans for adding fees for individual components such as motherboards, etc." The article notes that the recovered e-waste will not be sent to developing countries for processing. But one report says that the e-waste won't be recycled at all, but rather burned in a smelter.

Comments

Re:70 places to recycle in the province?

[loraksus]

If I had to pay for it and didn't even have the option, I'd say it is fairly significant...

Re:Mod Parent Down

[loraksus]

Also remember, the population of Vancouver, Victoria, and the next 3 largest cities in BC total 2.8 million. That's 65% of the entire population of the province, with Vancouver comprising 2.1 million of the total alone. I'm pretty sure the recycling program exists THERE.

That's great. Vancouver and Victoria have a bunch of places to drop your stuff off. But large areas have nothing for hundreds of km. If you exclude greater Vancouver and Victoria, the rest of the province have a whopping 16 stations.

This "oh, Vancouver and Victoria have it, fuck the rest of the province" mentality pisses me off. Let me put this in numbers you can understand - cities with over 50,000 people don't have a place to return stuff. That's hardly an effective system in mind - even if someone in Vancouver has one 20 minutes away from their house. If I'm forced to have to pay for something, it would be really nice be able to fucking use it.

Re:so much for liberal paradise huh

[timmarhy]

People will just void paying it, by mail ordering or otherwise. the point is that mandating what is essentially a moral issue will never work, dumbass.