Just another bureaucrat who wants to add making a law to his list of lifetime achievements. Too bad it's a good idea on paper, but will only end up costing consumers more money.
Instead of lining the pockets of the powerful scum in Madison, use the money to offer recycling incentives.
Are electronics in our landfills causing the global warming I'm totally feeling this summer?
Dole is trying to sabotage this state on purpose I swear...

Rooster..and all:

I wish they'd put a deposit on just about everything, including women's shoes! egads. Wear them until they're used up.

@ janesvillecomments, well put, I totally agree.

There's nothing wrong with recycling old batteries. Problem is the state is shaking down the retailers by first charging them a fee just to do business, and second by slapping them with a large fine when they don't meet an unrealistic goal that they have no control over. And where do you suppose that extra cost will get passed on? To you, the consumer, that's where. So in other words it's just another sneaky, underhanded pseudo fee that the democrats snuck into the budget on top of the already ridiculous tax and fee increases.

This is not necessary. It's much easier to find a nice quiet road in the middle of the night and dump your crap in the ditch.

Irish_Mafia78 this whole program would keep a company like Dell (your listed computer source) from opening in Wisconsin. Dell sells more product out the state(s) it is located in, including exports, than it sells locally. To be compliant with the "rules" for Wisconsin it would need to pay hefty fines...not very business friendly; another reason these companies will not move here to employee people from Wisconsin.

Ditto to what rooster said.

Best Buy also offers recycling for electronics.
The site says:

"And we'll take just about anything electronic, including TVs, DVD players, computer monitors, cell phones and more. You can bring in up to two items a day, per household, and most things are absolutely free. However, there is a $10 charge for TVs 32" and under, CRTs, monitors and laptops — but we'll give you a $10 Best Buy gift card to offset that cost. It's just a little e-incarnation appreciation."

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?...

Not a bad deal if you have something that's older or have something the manufacturer doesn't recycle.

lovemycountry -

I take into consideration manufacturer recycling policies and whether or not rebates or other things are offered when I make an electronics purchase. My cellphone service provider offers recycling of old handsets at no cost to me. They will pay you for your old handset in some cases. They'll even recycle handsets and batteries from other service providers.

http://www.sprint.com/responsibility/com...

My computer manufacturer has a recycling program for old computer units.

http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/about...

I think a product is worth the money spent if recycling is offered.

i have a good idea, put a deposit on the stuff like with pop bottles and batteries. when you return the junk that you paid a fortune for and was out of date before you got the tape off the package, you can turn right around an get your deposit back while you look over the "latest".

Let's not limit this to electronics. The Gazette can pick up my old printed papers when I'm through reading them, Coca~Cola can pick up my empty Diet Coke bottles, Thunder Shooting Supplies can pick up my ammunition brass when I'm done target shooting and Phil Woodman can pick up my sweet corn when I'm finished with it.

If these places keep using non-renewable resources to fill our landfills, they should be reponsible for recycling them at their own cost.

I recycle as much as I possibly can, and I would love to see more businesses do the same. But, to force businesses who sell electronics to be responsible for recycling products they've sold is something I fear would deter new business from coming to Wisconsin. I would think we should all be responsible enough to properly recycle our old electronics.

Manufacturers will just pass on the cost of recycling to the consumer.

For all those YES votes...aren't you curious first how much extra it will cost you when you purchase a product ? Or doesn't it matter ?

"The worse thing to do is to rely on personal responsibility." Spoken like a true communist.

If I'm not mistaken, the Hedberg Library has a drop box for old cellphones. I'm not sure if they get recycled or refurbished but it's a recycling effort nonetheless.

Some companies already do this. Dell and Apple come to mind. BestBuy also offers inexpensive recycling of consumer electonics and PCs with a gift card give to you to offset the cost.
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The worse thing to do is to rely on personal responsibility. I've seen way too much e-waste in the landfill and recycling drop offs that we need stricter policies to protect the environment.

As far as the recycling of electronics, isn't that the responsibility of the buyer to dispose of it properly? Our local recycling center have been accepting them for years.

The reason big business is pulling out of our state is because of Doyle's creative taxes. Instead of balancing spending to budget, he looks for ways to tax a little tax to this, a little more tax to that, Make companies do this by charging them a little more tax for this AND that. You get the picture. Were putting our state at a big disadvantage as far as getting more employers to create jobs here.

Enough Taxes.. Start the spending cuts now.
Enough Doyle, I hope..

Any one ever heard of or remember "personal responsibility"? When the money changes hands, the product becomes yours. You are not renting it, you own it and the responsibilities that go along with it!!! C'mon, America, start acting like adults!!!!

Shouldn't it be "manufacturers"?

Anyway, YES.

Hope this isnt a near reality. Is it me,or does Wi. TRY to not bring business,jobs,revenue to our state?

Another reason to raise prices

How about recycling another "R" into that question?

What a crazy idea. If the company sold more items out of state or exported more product than local; yet provided great jobs for locals. This would then be a financial hardship on the company; under the current rules put forth--financial penalty impossed by the state. What company would want to move to our state with these rules?