Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 140 - Waste and Materials Management › Subchapter 20 - Recycling and Special Waste › Part 4 - Regulations Governing the Administration and Enforcement of the Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Act (250-RICR-140-20-4) › Section 250-RICR-140-20-4.8 - Manufacturer Collection Programs for Televisions

Current through June 14, 2024
A.
				  Designation of Participation: At the time of registration, the manufacturer of
				  televisions must designate whether it will participate in the State Program or
				  implement a manufacturer program, either individually or in cooperation with
				  other manufacturers. Manufacturers who do not indicate a choice between the
				  State Program or a manufacturer program must participate in the State Program
				  for the following year.
B.
				  Manufacturer Program Plan: Each year, a television manufacturer choosing to
				  implement a manufacturer program shall submit an implementation plan in writing
				  to the Department no later than December 15th of the year preceding the
				  calendar year covered under the proposed plan. A group of television
				  manufacturers may choose to implement a manufacturer program as one entity, if
				  in doing so the manufacturers meet the sum of their individual market shares.
				  The manufacturer's plan must include:
1. The
				  names of the participating television manufacturers and the appropriate contact
				  information for all individuals designated with responsibility for developing
				  the plan and implementing the program.
2. An explanation of how the television
				  manufacturer(s) will provide convenient collection service statewide for all
				  brands of covered electronic products from households and public and private
				  elementary and secondary schools in this state, including:
a. The staffing and operating hours the
				  collection sites will be open to the public and an explanation on how that
				  provides a frequency adequate to meet the needs of the area being
				  served.
b. Any collection
				  service(s) operated jointly with another program(s), potentially including, but
				  not be limited to, mail back programs and collection events.
c. All collectors and recyclers to be
				  utilized in the course of the implementation of the plan, and procedures to
				  ensure that all collectors and recyclers are properly registered with the
				  Department is accordance with §
												4.10 of this
				  Part.
3. An explanation
				  of how the television manufacturer(s) will finance a statewide program to
				  collect covered electronic products from households and public and private
				  elementary and secondary schools in this state;
a. The television manufacturer (s) must
				  provide for basic service collection, transportation and recycling of covered
				  electronic products from households and public and private elementary and
				  secondary schools free-of-charge; and
b. The television manufacturer(s) may provide
				  additional premium service and may charge for the additional cost of that
				  premium service.
4. An
				  explanation of how the television manufacturer(s) will provide for advertising
				  and promotion of collection opportunities statewide and on a regular basis from
				  households and public and private elementary and secondary schools in this
				  state;
5. An explanation of how the
				  television manufacturer(s) will provide for environmentally sound management
				  practices of covered electronic products collected, transported and recycled
				  from households and public and private elementary and secondary schools in this
				  state in accordance with §
											4.13 of this
				  Part.
6. Proposed methodology and
				  procedures to conduct statistically significant sampling or an actual count of
				  the covered electronic products collected and recycled by the television
				  manufacturer each calendar year;
7.
				  Each television manufacturer included in the plan must include a statement
				  disclosing whether:
a. Any video display
				  devices sold in Rhode Island exceed the maximum concentration values
				  established for lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated
				  diphenyls (PBBs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) under the RoHS
				  (restricting the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and
				  electronic equipment) directive 2002/95/EC of the European parliament and
				  council and any amendments there to enacted as of the date; or
b. The manufacturer has received an exemption
				  from one or more of those maximum concentration values under the RoHS directive
				  that has been approved and published by the European commission.
8. Television manufacturers who
				  indicate their intent to participate in a manufacturer's program but do not
				  submit a plan by December 15th must participate in the State Program for the
				  following year.