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[quote=Anonymous]DC has a whole initiative dedicated to TV and electronics disposal.

It’s called E-Cycle:

https://doee.dc.gov/ecycle

As part of E-Cycle, consumers are not allowed to dispose of electronics.  They must recycle.
Retailers have responsibility too; they must post signs, at minimum.
Manufacturers must register if they sell covered electronics in the city.

This is a huge effort, with a full website.

And yet it’s now INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT for actual consumers to actually recycle electronics.
There are a tiny number of sites listed: Best Buy on 14th, but they may not accept all and you have to pay up to $25.  Good luck!  Show up and see if they’ll accept it.  Apple store for apple products only.  Verizon for small electronics.  And DC itself hosts a dropoff site in Fort Totten the fifth Saturday of every other month between 10:53 am and 1:22pm.

This is a city of 700,000 people and this is the best they can do?  What a mess of neoliberal concession to conservatives that hate government.

Guys, this is easy.  Require every electronics retailer to accept electronics.  Then pay them per item if you want.  Skip the manufacturer and retailer registration  BS.  MAKE GOVERNMENT EASY.  [/quote]

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