NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5567
SPONSOR: Brown K TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in
towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties; and providing for the repeal
of such provisions upon expiration thereof
PURPOSE:
Requires the establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling
Programs in towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a
new section 120-dd. Section 2: Identifies effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Many municipalities already host annual electronic and hazardous waste
events. According to a 2013 report by the Consumer Electronics Associ-
ation the average American household uses about. 28 electronic products
such as personal computers, mobile phones, televisions and electronic
readers. With an ever-increasing supply of new electronic gadgets, Amer-
icans generated 2.7 million tons of consumer electronics goods in 2018.
Improved life cycle management of electronics, through source reduction
of materials used, increasing reuse, refurbishing, extending the life of
products, and recycling of electronics, can reduce the total quantity of
waste that needs to be managed domestically and globally. Consumers in
New York State are required to recycle many electronic waste items, such
as computers, computer peripherals, televisions, small scale servers,
and small electronic equipment, etc., in an environmentally responsible
manner. This pilot program will allow an opportunity to establish a
year-round program and determine best practices. This bill would require
every municipality within Nassau and Suffolk counties to establish an
electronics and hazardous waste recycling program.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: A.10263
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed
repealed three years after it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5567
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in
towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties; and providing for the repeal
of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 120-dd to read as follows:
3 § 120-dd. Electronics and hazardous waste recycling pilot programs. 1.
4 Each municipality within Nassau and Suffolk counties shall adopt a local
5 law or ordinance establishing an electronics and hazardous waste recycl-
6 ing pilot program within such municipality within one hundred eighty
7 days of the effective date of this section. Such pilot programs shall
8 run for no less than one year. Such pilot programs shall include, but
9 not be limited to:
10 (a) The recycling of electronics and hazardous waste; and
11 (b) A location for residents to drop off electronics and hazardous
12 waste for recycling which is open to residents.
13 2. Within two years of the effective date of this section, each muni-
14 cipality which established a pilot program under this section shall
15 submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate,
16 the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the
17 minority leader of the assembly which shall include, but not be limited
18 to, the effectiveness of the pilot program, how much material was
19 collected and if it was treated, disposed of, or recycled, and the
20 number of participants in the pilot program compared to the number of
21 residents within the municipality.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
23 deemed repealed three years after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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