Re: Junk TVs (was Re: hdtv purchase now or later?)

["Paul Baumgardner" <user=1431@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 9/27/07, Rich Braun <[hidden email]> wrote 
>What *should* have happened already is a surcharge tax on new TVs 
paid into a fund to >make disposal of old TVs free of charge come 
2009-10. 

Looks like our friends in California have already implemented such an 
idea, charging $6 to $10 per "covered electronic device". 

http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/ewaste.htm
http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub95.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Waste_Recycling_Fee

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