Minnesota legislature passes country's toughest e-waste bill

The Minnesota state legislature recently passed an innovative "producer responsibility" bill which requires electronics manufacturers to pay for collection and recycling of electronic waste from households. This is the first bill in the country to set actual targets for how much equipment the manufacturers must take back and recycle, measured as a percent of the products they are selling in the state. The bill requires each manufacturer that sells TVs, computer monitors and laptops in Minnesota to collect and recycle an amount proportional to the weight of their products sold in the state during the previous year.

 

Source: Greener Computing