Ontarians to Experience Recycling Fees
| 3/31/2008 | Posted by Patti under Environment |
Waste Diversion Ontario has come up with a plan that should see electronic waste diverted from landfills and into recycling programs. The plan comes with an estimated cost of about $62million which is expected to be financed through fees consumers would pay at the time of purchasing their electronics.
Fees are also being suggested to fund the disposal of old vehicles tires. Although many retailers have been charging $5 / tire for disposal for many years now. Which begs the question, if the government hasn’t been collecting that $5 / tire, who has? If the government does actually impose a disposal fee for tires will retailers then be stopped from collecting the current fee in addition?
Although many will view this as imposing yet another tax on Ontarians, it is one that can be controlled. If you don’t want to pay it, then don’t buy the electronics. Although I can ill afford anyone else dipping into my pocket, at the same time, someone has to pay for the costs associated with environmentally safe disposal and why not me as a user?
The laptop I’m writing this post on would cost me an additional $2.14 under the current proposal. That is not a huge price to pay to move my old piece of equipment into a recycling program. I’d rather see consumer goods being able to be broke down and some parts remanufactured than them filling our landfills with their often deadly toxins.
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