New rule helps recycle TVs

Trash TV
This TV stood near a trash barrel in a rest area near Two Harbors last year. The goal is to keep landfills and other dumping grounds free of potentially harmful metals contained in video display devices.
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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is reminding stores that sell certain electronics that today is the deadline to report their yearly sales to manufacturers.

A new state law affects retailers that sell video display devices such as monitors, laptops and TVs.

The MPCA's Lisa Bujak said the law is designed to protect the environment. "The manufacturers of those, basically TVs and monitors, have to recycle electronics in the state, so in order for them to know how much they have to recycle, they have to know their sales, and so we're relying on our retailers," Bujak said.

Bujak said the goal is to keep landfills and other dumping grounds free of potentially harmful metals contained in video display devices.

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