BILL WOULD ADD $6 FEE TO PC SALES.Byline: HARRISON SHEPPARD Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO -- A $6 recycling fee would be tacked onto the price of personal computers as part of a lawmaker's effort to boost the state's underused e-waste program. The state established an electronic-waste recycling program in 2003, but left PCs off the list of consumer products that carry a $6 to $10 fee to pay for their eventual disposal. Assembly Bill 1535 by Assemblyman as·sem·bly·man n. A man who is a member of a legislative assembly. assemblyman Noun pl -men a member of a legislative assembly Noun 1. Jared Huffman Jared Huffman (born February 18, 1964) is the Assemblyman for California's 6th Assembly district which includes Marin and southern Sonoma counties. 2006 Primary and General Election , D-San Rafael, would add PCs to the list of products that carry the fee. The money is used as an incentive for local governments, nonprofits and private recyclers to collect e-waste, which is considered hazardous and unfit unfit not properly prepared, e.g. physically incapable of performing hard work as in racing, because of lack of training. Said also of food prepared unhygienically. unfit for human consumption for disposal in ordinary landfills. "We have learned since the passage of California's e-waste law that in addition to monitors, the computer CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. itself is toxic," Huffman said. "It is currently illegal to dump them, yet thousands and thousands of them are going to the landfill each year." The Assembly Committee on Natural Resources approved the bill Monday along party lines. It must go through additional hearings before reaching a full floor vote. Opponents -- including Hewlett-Packard, the California Chamber of Commerce and the American Electronics Association The American Electronics Association (now known as AeA) is a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry in the United States. -- said the fee is unnecessary because the private sector and recyclers are already encouraging recycling. Already, 191 disposal sites statewide accept PCs for free, said Larry King Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called Larry King Live, one of the longest running talk shows on American air. , who oversees Hewlett-Packard's recycling program. "Is there a problem for the citizens of California which is not being addressed by the marketplace?" King said. "And is that problem to such a degree that the citizens need an additional tax placed on them? We would argue the marketplace is addressing the needs of the citizens." Other bills to expand electronic recycling include AB 48, which would lengthen length·en tr. & intr.v. length·ened, length·en·ing, length·ens To make or become longer. length  en·er n. the list of products banned for sale in California.
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