The Connecticut House of Representatives approved a measure that is designed to boost the recycling of electronic scrap equipment.
The House voted 139-to-7 to require manufacturers to pay registration fees and to label those electronics. They include computers and monitors, telephones, TV's and similar equipment. They're often expensive and difficult to recycle because they contain materials such as glass, plastic and metal.
The legislation, which now goes to the Senate, would require manufacturers to pay $5,000 which the state would use to help run its electronics recycling program. Manufacturers would have to participate in it by 2009. By 2011, the electronic equipment would be banned from landfills.