Student Project: E-Waste in the United States: California

This Article is free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. The article was designed to provide a general background of the E-waste problem that faces the United States and the world. The writer ended up saying: “Like many other environmental issues, e-waste is likely to be most comprehensively managed on a national level, not piecemeal by state and local governments”.

This Article is free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. The article is an updating California 's Electric-Waste Recycling Policies for the Digital Age. The writer suggested that California first needs to find a plausible way to curb the illegal disposal and low recycling rate happening in its own communities. By learning from other nations, states, and its own mistakes, California can lead the way in finding better, more reasonable ways to encourage reuse, recycling, and e-waste reduction. Until the federal government can pass a law encompassing the entire life cycle of an electronic product, California must look at the bigger picture and incorporate new strategies that reduce the amount of waste manufacturers produce from the design stage of a product to the end of its usefulness.