Type of Legislation

Producer Responsibility Law

Signed

July 2008; TVs added in 2009

Implemented

January 1, 2010

Read the bill/law

Initial bill: (Download/View PDF)
2009 TV addition: (Download/View PDF)

Details

Manufacturers must register with the Department of Health, pay an annual $5,000 fee and file/implement a recycling plan. No fee to consumers, businesses, non-profit organizations and government. Covers monitors, computers, laptops, printers and TVs.

Disposal ban

No

Prison labor ban

No

More information

http://hawaii.gov/health/environmental/waste/index.html

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/lists/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1809

State contacts and resources

http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/solid/ecycling/contacts.htm

http://hawaii.gov/health/