MO DNR Hosting E-Scrap Meeting

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will host the fourth meeting of the electronic scrap workgroup Aug. 16 in Jefferson City.

The department created the workgroup to assist Missouri businesses in developing and managing an infrastructure for electronic wastes. The primary purpose of the E-Scrap Stakeholder Workgroup will be to decide how to put in place a framework for disposing, reusing and recycling electronic waste in Missouri in an economically sustainable fashion without threatening the environment.

During the meeting, the group will discuss the cathode ray tube rule recently finalized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The CRT rule includes requirements for handling and managing color computer monitors and TVs, CRTs from this equipment and CRT glass. The group will also discuss options that each of the group's subgroups developed during the past two months.

During the workgroups last meeting held June 14, the group agreed to form three smaller subgroups (1) regulatory options, (2) funding options and (3) education/information efforts. During July and August, each subgroup met to develop options on how to address that subgroup's issues in Missouri. The subgroups were to develop a range of options from fully funded to ones with lesser or no funding.

More information on the meeting may be obtained by contacting Michael Menneke of the department's Hazardous Waste Program at at 1-800-361-4827 or (573) 751-9189, by e-mail to mike.menneke@dnr.mo.gov or visit the department's Web site at www.dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/escrap/workgroup.htm