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Electronic Equipment Recycling Fund
South Carolina’s legislature evaluated a bill that would establish a statewide electronic equipment recycling program. Although the proposal did not survive this year’s session, it is likely to be introduced again next year.

In summary, this program would be administered by the Department of Commerce’s Recycling Market Development Advisory Council. It would impose a $5.00 fee on each piece of electronic equipment containing a cathode ray tube (CRT) sold and require the state treasurer to deposit the fees into an electronic equipment recycling fund. This fund would be used, among other things, to determine the most efficient means of collecting, transporting, and processing scrap electronic equipment and to award grants, contracts, and loans to further the process and technology for recycling electronic equipment. The summary and the full text of the bill, are still available on South Carolina’s Web site at http://www.lpitr.state.sc.us/bills/619.htm.

Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs)
Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Solid Waste has issued a recommendation for glass-to-glass recycling of CRTs.

Common Sense Initiative Council Recommendation on Cathode Ray Tube Glass-to-Glass Recycling, issued June 4, 1998. (8 pages, 28 KB)

Background on the Recommendation on Cathode Ray Tube Glass-to-Glass Recycling. (3 pages, 15 KB)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts plans to issue new regulations on the management of CRTs. For more information, see its Web site at http://www.state.ma.us/dep/bwp/dswm/dswmpubs.htm.

European Commission Draft Takeback Directive
The European Commission has released two drafts of its Proposal for a Directive on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment. The second draft was released on July 27, 1998.

  Second draft, issued July 27, 1998. (18 pages, 51 KB)

  First draft, issued April 21, 1998. (19 pages, 495 KB)