Legislation
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Legislation and other government activity to be aware of, and perhaps involved in.
The Government Accountability Office (federal) released a report (11/10/05) on the need to deal with e-waste. This may reverberate through many legislative initiatives. (Link is just the abstract; full report linked from there.)
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- To easily find a list of your Oregon and US senators, representatives, and their contact info, just visit this site and enter your street address.
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Oregon
Oso's on it.
12/05, State government (?) started a program to reuse its computers through schools (?) reported on OPB.
potential contacts
our neighbors Ospirg
Washington State
Complete Washington State Legislation summary and linkages can be found at:
http://vaultcommunity.org/vault/index.php/Legislation
(Previous notes below)
Legislation to be introduced early 2006, has broad industry backing. Will add $9-15 to cost of every TV, computer sold; will partner with Goodwill and other non profits as collection points.
NOTE: This report incorporates some info about Free Geek as a potential disposal center.
media coverage
- Columbian article, Kathie Durbin
- Olympian article, John Dodge, 360-754-5444, jdo_ge at theolympian dotcom (he tried to contact FGOly)
- web site about the initiative, courtesy of Jim C
potential contacts
- Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver and Rep. Brian Sullivan, D-Mukilteo, will introduce.
- Clifford Traisman, clif__rd at wcvoters dotorg is a lobbyist who has backed it (Washington Conservation Voters)
- Mo McBroom of Washington Environmental Council (woman) has been quoted on KPOJ and in Columbian. 206.568.2850 may be out of date (WashPIRG)
- Ha Tran of the Washington Department of Ecology sent some questions to FG Oly on 9/8/05. There was some discussion on reuse list but no response was sent. I'm almost certain those questions were related to this legislation. (see talk page)
