States Brainstorming Session Florida Electronics Recycling: The Wake and The Course

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States Brainstorming Session Florida Electronics
Recycling The Wake and The Course

• Jack Price
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics
  Engineers/
• International Association of Electronics
  Recyclers
• Electronics Recycling Summit
• Orlando, Florida
• May 8, 2007

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The Florida Experience

• Early start and good infrastructure
• Legislation and current political climate
• No recycling system preference

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Florida Regulatory Setting
Televisions, Computers, Monitors,
Peripherals, Printers/Imaging Devices,
Cell/cordless Phones, Remote Controls, Talking
Elmo, etc.
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Legislation and Political Climate

• Draft Legislation 2003
• ARF requiring local match
• Viewed as another tax
• No new taxes
• Never introduced
• Today No new taxes

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Why no legislative activity?

• Early start and good infrastructure
• Political climate No new taxes
• No requests for legislation from state or local
  legislators, manufacturers, environmental
  advocacy groups, businesses, public

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Advance Recovery Fee orProducer Responsibility?

• No preference
• ARF would probably quickly morph into PR

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Florida The Wake and the Course

• Early start, good infrastructure, favorable
  regulatory climate
• Past and current political climate No new
  taxes
• No recycling system preference but likely end up
  being Producer Responsibility even if it starts
  as Advanced Recovery Fee