Illinois likely to get E-Cycling Law
Illinois appears likely to become the next U.S. state to implement a statewide comprehensive take-back program for the recovery of used consumer electronics.
An Illinois General Assembly informed E-Scrap News that manufacturer-responsibility measure Senate Bill 2313 was to be pushed back to the assembly's November veto session. The delay was in order for the Senate to take action on House Amendment No. 2, which updated several bill provisions, including requiring the state to post on its Web site a list of registered manufacturers that had not met their annual recycling and re-use goal for the previous program year.
The Senate, however, did not wait until wintertime, as a required three-fifths vote was achieved on July 10th by a unanimous 42-to-zero decision. Having now passed both assembly chambers, the measure will be transferred to Governor Rod Blagojevich, where it is hoped he will make the Lincoln State the eighth state this year to enact a program for scrap electronics.
If approved, the program will target the recovery of desktop, personal and laptop computers, computer monitors, printers, televisions, as well as other display devices.
Article originally published by The Electronics Recycling News