“somebody else’s problem”

That is very much a common held view in most people’s everyday life all the way to actual law in this state.

I’m not familiar with Klein’s work in this case. I am a bit more familiar with the concepts Georg Lakoff uses in his work in the political arena. It fits this state to a tee, IME.

From Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality,
Environmental Update, Summer 2001:

Current waste management

Computer and television waste is managed like any other solid waste. Under state and federal waste management regulations, hazardous waste produced by households is not regulated. Households disposing of computers, monitors, and televisions are allowed to put these items in the trash, for landfill disposal. DEQ discourages landfill disposal, but no federal or state laws presently prevent it.

This was the first Google return, so I am assuming it is the most updated (2001 ?!).

Only reason I went looking online was that my VCR gave up the ghost. It was the second piece of e waste to be generated from this household in the present weekly garbage cycle.

So, of you got a technology and a business model you could come mine Nebraska landfills for your riches 8D

This may be all for naught. I hope Synergy is clean. If not, our hypocrisy may allow us to overlook it.

Someone posted it a few months or so ago and I couldn’t for the life of me view it and subsequently forgot about it.

Great Post top to bottom !

When I first returned to secondary school in ’88 I remember reading how the industry fought to keep the cost of recycling out of the pricing of the new products. Even then the US industry was THE pariah.