Quote Originally Posted by JustInTime View Post
How so?
This statement here, for example:
The most important thing to know about the e-waste recycling industry is that it is not free to recycle an old computer or an old CRT television. The value of the raw materials in the vast majority of old electronics is worth less than it costs to actually recycle them. While consumers rarely have to pay e-waste recycling companies to take their old electronics (costs are offset by local tax money or manufacturers fronting the bill as part of a legally mandated obligated recycling quota), companies, governments, and organizations do.
CRT televisions, maybe. I'll grant him that.



But if the same were true for computers and most other electronics, most of us who do e-waste would have to resort to curb shopping for scrap money. Companies, governments, and organizations have many ways to receive compensation for their old electronics without needing any tax assistance or even "manufacturers fronting the bill."