Virginia's Computer Recovery and Recycling Act (2008)
Legislation was passed in 2008 to require a computer manufacturer that in any calendar year manufactured or had manufactured computer equipment in excess of 500 units which were sold (or offered for sale) in Virginia under its brand or license to implement a recovery/recycling plan for those computers at no charge to the consumer. Information on the legislation, and its requirements on computer manufacturers, can be found beginning at Section 10.1-1425.27 and continuing through Section 10.1-1425.38 of the Code of Virginia.
The Act went into effect July 1, 2009. Each manufacturer must file its recovery plan with DEQ in order to continue to sell its products in Virginia after this date of the legislation. If a manufacturer's recovery plan is not in place (and on file with the Department of Environmental Quality) by this date, the manufacturer's computers can not be sold in the state.
The following Computer Manufacturers have notified DEQ of a qualified plan posted on their web sites: Many of the manufacturers have mail-in programs available at no cost to the consumer. (clicking on the manufacturer's name will take you to their specific program web site and directions on how to use its recovery and recycling network).
- Acer America Corporation (Brands: Acer, Gateway, eMachines)
- Apple Inc. (Brands: iMac, iBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, Apple Cinema Display, PowerMac, PowerBook, iBook, NeXT, Macintosh)
- ASUS Computer International
- BenQ American Corp
- Best Buy (Brands: Insignia, Dynex)
- Coby Electronics Corporation (Brand: Coby)
- Craig Electronics, Inc. (Brand: Craig)
- Dell (Brands: Dell, Alienware)
- DRS Tactical Systems, Inc. (Brands: Armor C12 Notebook, Armor X10 Rugged Tablet)
- Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company (MRM) (Brands: AOC, ENVISION, MSI-America, Hitachi, NEC, Panasonic, Soyo, Starlogic, Synaps, Toshiba,Touchmark, Vizio, Vuescape)
- Fujitsu (Brands: Fujitsu Lifebook, Fujitsu Stylistic)
- Hannspree North America, Inc. (Brands: Hannspree, HannsG, I-Inc.)
- Hewlett Packard (Brands: Hewlett Packard or HP, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp or Digital, Tandem, Apollo Computer, VooDoo Computer Inc or VooDoo)
- International Business Machines (IBM)
- International Products Sourcing (Brands: PowerSpec, WinBook)
- Kobo, Inc (Kobo electronic Reader)
- Lenovo (United States), Inc. (Brands: Lenovo, ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkVision)
- LG Electronics USA, Inc. (Brands: LG, Zenith, Goldstar)
- Medion AG
- Motion Computing, Inc.
- Motorola (Brand: XOOM tablet computer)
- MSI Computer Corp (Brand: MSI - recycling collection by MRM)
- NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc (Brands: NEC, AccuSync, MultiSync, Multeos)
- NCR Corp
- Nokia (Brand: Nokia 3G Netbook)
- Planar Systems, Inc. (Brands: Planar, Runco)
- Research In Motion Ltd. (Brands: Blackberry, Playbook tablet)
- Samsung Electronics America
- Seneca Data Distributors, Inc (Brand: Nextlink)
- Sony Electronics
- Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems, Inc) (Brands: Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Ray, Sun Ultra)
- Toshiba
- Velocity Micro (Brands: Velocity Micro, OverDrive PC)
- ViewSonic Corporation (Brands: ViewSonic, Optiquest, Cybervision, Utobia)
- Vizio (program by MRM) (Brands: VIZIO, V Inc.)
- Wacom Technology (Brands: Wacom)
- Westinghouse Digital Electronics, LLC
- Wyse
Computer manufacturer reporting for CY 2011 collections totaled 3,722,734 pounts (1,861 tons).
CY 2010 collections from Virginia totaled 4,439,446 pounds (2,220 tons).
CY 2009 collections from Virginia totaled 3,782,500 pounds (1,891 tons).