State considers allowing electronics back in landfills
Under current law, televisions, computers, basically anything with a screen is banned from landfills, but a bill being considered in the state legislature could reverse that ban.
Posted — UpdatedThe change could add up for the Town of Cary, where electronics factor into a goal that 40 percent of waste be recycled.
"There's no money in it," Wade told the Senate Commerce Committee.
"If recycling ever comes back and there’s a profit to be made, we can always change the law and go back to recycling," she said. "But right now, we have a bigger problem with them being abandoned and the possibility of having some kind of contamination because we don’t have anywhere to put them."
Wade claimed that in rural areas, where no official recycling programs exist, people dispose of electronics by throwing them in the woods or ditches.
"You get a DVD player or a Blueray player, it might work for a year, it might work for a couple of months. You know it's a disposable item. It's not like they used to make them," he said.
Stewart says no matter what happens at the legislature, one thing just makes perfect sense to him.
"I hope they keep recycling," he said. "It's better than going to a landfill."
The State Senate has passed the bill. The regulatory reduction measure, House Bill 169, is under consideration in the House.
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