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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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?  [b]What a mess of neoliberal concession to conservatives that hate government[/b].

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]

what do conservatives have to do with this?[/quote]

Nothing. But never pass up an opportunity to trash conservatives, no matter how tangential or ludicrous the “connection”. [/quote]

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