2002-010 - Resuse & Recycling of Their By-Products

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The City of Santa Ana is committed to protecting public health and the environment from hazardous discards, while reducing waste and increasing recycling consistent with state waste diversion requirements. The form, volume, toxicity of electronics scrap demands substantially greater producer responsibility for: 1) reducing the amount of hazardous materials in electronic devices, 2) diverting hazardous electronics from solid waste disposal, and 3) increasing the rouse and recycling of electronic devices and components. Extended Producer Responsibility principles, such as those being adopted by several countries and the European Union, will foster the development of sustainable design and recovery of hazardous electronic equipment by shifting the default burden of management responsibility from local government, ratepayers, and taxpayers back to the manufacturers, distributors and consumers of such products, in part by internalized lifecycle costs in the price of such products. Section 2. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby urges its State Assembly and State Senate Representatives, by letter and receipt of this resolution, to introduce and support legislation requiring computer and other hazardous electronics producers to operate or fund comprehensive programs whereby products are sustainably designed and labeled, consumers receive a financial incentive for proper disposal, and a convenient collection infrastructure yielding a high rate of recovery is created and environmentally sound reuse followed by recycling is maximized. Section 3. If no effective producer responsibility program is created by the electronics industry or enacted by the California Legislature and signed by the Governor by October 15, 2002, the City of Santa Ana may commence preparing a local ordinance to require sellers and manufacturers to take back hazardous electronic equipment free of charge at the point of purchase or to otherwise establish and finance a convenient recovery system. Section 4. Should the electronics industry and the Legislature and Governor fail to act, the City of Santa Ana, may additionally require a deposit or fee at the point of sale to provide incentives for consumers to properly return for reuse or recycling such products and cover the costs to Santa Ana and others for proper management of such products ADOPTED this 19th day of February, 2002..~,"'" Mayor Resolution No. 2002-010 Page 2 of 3