Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.
Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656
New York has recently made electronic scrap sites more available to the general public. This has lead to an increase in e-waste recycling and a decrease in government spending in New York State. New York's e-waste law was implemented on April 1, 2011. In its first 8 months, the state saw the number of electronic recycling sites increase by 77% and collected more than 44 million pounds of scrap electronics.
The success of this law has continued since. It helps prevent the release of hazardous substances into the environment, it also saved the government a lot of money. This quickly growing increase in electronics recycling has helped New York's e-waste recyclers grow, which brought other types of recyclers to the state, as well as creating jobs and adding to the tax base. Although public awareness as well as collection sites have both increased vastly, it is still not enough. The initiatives of take back sites are not as well known and this leads to lower product recovery. Scott Cassel, CEO of Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), has called for more dialogue between government, non-government organizations, recyclers, retailers and manufacturers to find a solution together.
"While New York's e-waste collection program, which was established by the law, has had a net positive impact on electronics recycling in the state, there are still some fairly large kinks that need to be ironed out to optimize the system," Cassel said in one statement.
The Government created this plan as step one to the recycling solution. Now we just have to continue to improve the plan, and we can start with spreading awareness.
For more information on the New York e-waste law please visit http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/article/20130716/NEWS08/130719947/new-yorks-e-waste-law-boosts-recycling-lowers-costs-report-finds
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