Type of Legislation

Producer Responsibility Law

Signed

April 20, 2004

Implemented

January 2006

Read the bill/law

Updated, 2009: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billtexts
/SP042802.asp

Details

Law provides for shared responsibility. Manufacturers fund recycling consolidation centers, where municipalities send covered e-waste.  No fee to consumers (households) only. Covers TVs, laptops, monitors or anything with a display greater than 4” or contains a circuit board.  

Disposal ban

Yes

Prison labor ban

No

More information

http://www.maine.gov/dep/rwm/ewaste/
summaryhouseholdreclaw.htm

State contacts and resources

http://www.epa.gov/region01/solidwaste/electronic/state-contacts.html

http://www.maine.gov/dep/rwm/recycle/computerrecy.htm