> Charge a REFUNDABLE recycling fee. Something that makes it worth people's
> time. Say $100 per machine or $10 per component. That money be collected by
> the government, and placed into even just a basic (read no-risk) savings
> account. Interest gained would be used to fund a true recycling effort, be
> that remanufacturing the components for similar use, or an alternate use
> effort, similar to where tires are used to make 'sand' for playgrounds. The
> recycling fee would be returned to the PCs owner on a reverse prorated basis.
> I'm not sure, if these fees will do much good and as often with
> So that if you kept the PC for say 2 years, you'd get $20 back. But if you
> kept the PC for 10 years, you'd get the full $100.
I really like that idea, the part I would emphasis is this tax money should be in a segregated account. Too often the government have pass laws (taxes) for a legitimate reason but the money only goes to a common account and they are slow to do anything about the issue at hand. The tax revenue for recycling should be used to fund the recycling effort and should not be used for other initiatives. (The reason why we have taxes was legislated to pay for the war way back when -- now it is a bureaucracy to itself long after the debt was paid. It is not because I am against paying taxes, but the government need to be honest and transparent on what they are doing with tax dollars.)
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