Publication Summary

This report provides information and background that supports the recommendations for financing and implementing an electronic product recycling and reuse program in the state of Washington, as requested by the legislature in ESHB 2488, in the 2004 legislative session.

The legislature requested the Department of Ecology carry out this study in consultation with stakeholders. Our process involved holding six, day long facilitated stakeholder meetings, several technical team conference calls and engaging in direct discussions with individual stakeholders to gather input on various aspects of establishing a recycling program for electronic products in the state. In addition to Ecology′s meetings with various members of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC) Subcommittee on Electronic Products and others who attended the meetings, members also met with each other and, through our facilitators, sent to each other numerous research reports and position papers for consideration.

The recommendations for financing and implementing an electronic product recycling and reuse program in the state of Washington, as requested by the legislature in ESHB 2488 can be found in the companion document, publication number 05-07-049. Additional information about electronic products and waste can be found in Ecology′s interim report to the legislature, submitting in December, 2004; publication number 05-07-002.