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E-waste affects many towns, cities, states, countries and continents. It has brought death and sickness to various places. Due to e-waste, the government has created laws that will help reduce the amount of e-waste created and make the amount of e-waste recycled larger. A total of 26 states, starting with California in 2003, have passed e-waste laws. One law in California is the Cell Phone Takeback and Recycling law, which was passed in 2004. This law tries to get phone retailers to collect old phones for free, then dispose of them correctly, recycle them, or reuse them. The 25 other states, including Connecticut, all have many similar laws. Places like Africa are demanding (tougher) e-waste laws. As long as we can keep this hard work up and try our best we won’t have as many or any e-waste problems at all.

Out of all e-waste laws, computer laws and cell phone laws are most plentiful. Computer laws entail people to recycle computers or to force retailers to fix them (correctly) for a low price or dispose of them the right way. Cell phone laws are similiar. One computer law, for example, is the Oklahoma Computer recovery law, passed on May 13, 2008. This law is exactly what it sounds like. Oklahoma is getting people to reuse their computers, or to return it to the company to be reused. These laws are all important, no matter what they’re for.

E-Waste Laws