Jan 19 - States Report on E-waste Recycling

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With the start of the new year, we are seeing states posting their e-waste recycling volume and rates. So far, Minnesota, Washington and New Jersey have released data for 2011 program year.

Minnesota's numbers have stagnated with 33 million pounds recovered while Washington and New Jersey both have seen increases in collection rate.

New Jersey collected approximately 40 million pounds a e-waste, a five-fold increase in e-waste tonnage over the approximately 8 million pounds collected in 2010. Washington saw a 6% increase from 2010, collecting 42.2 million pounds of covered electronics in 2011.

As states e-waste programs mature, we see the department making recommendations on how to improve the program.  Minnesota's recommendation to the Legislature included expand the scope of the program to include more devices such as printers, digital video recorders, set-top TV boxes, video game consoles and DVD players.

Learn more about our efforts to support e-waste laws. Please support our work on e-waste and make a tax-deductible donation today.