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Listed below are comments received from stakeholders relating to the
issue area of
collection of covered products
. Comments are received through
stakeholder meetings and correspondence. Due to transcription and/or space
limitations, the following may be paraphrased from the original comment
received.
Comments/Questions (received as of March17, 2004)
- To cancel a product, need manufacturers to identify their products.
- Based on the definition of consumer, which includes all businesses, are any products that we use going to go into that municipal system for businesses using their own manufactured
products.
- This is something new, going to take more than simple collection systems. We have an opportunity to bring collections systems together. Simple, local government collection programs by themselves are not going to solve these problems. Everybody and anybody who wants to haul this stuff should be encouraged and
rewarded.
- Can private industry continue to charge on and collect products as they do now? We’ll need something that says we can do
it.
- The Electronic Waste Recycling Act is intended to build and fund infrastructure to manage covered electronic waste from households not
businesses. To keep stockpiles of covered electronics from business sources out of the new system please consider
tagging retail devices
different from wholesale devices or vice versa. It is not illegal for
businesses to give or sell their devices to employees as
gifts --transferring them from a business into a household. Although
these devices were not purchased retail, and were not subject to the
recycling fee there is risk that these devices could flood the system
and result in financial shortfalls. To avoid this possibility please
take actions such as a tagging program.
- Collectors should be authorized and given a authorization number like the
curbside number for curbside recycling programs. Authorized collectors
would collect listed items from the public or municipalities.
- This program needs time for practical application; recommend that the implementation date be delayed to July 2005 and also strongly recommend transferring implementing responsibility to the Department of Conservation.
Every effort has been made to accurately reflect
stakeholder input. Please direct any corrections or additional comments in
alignment with guidance on the Stakeholder Input page.
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