e-waste in canberra?

beejay76 said :

Ah. That must be why, when I took my e-waste with great confidence to Mitchell, I got charged $40 and told the legislation wasn’t in yet. I had thought it was. So obviously no breath-holding, then? Really got my goat that I had to pay for the privilege of them selling my stuff.

Sigh – When that has happened in the past, I have declined to pay, dumped the ‘free’ items and simply taken the e-waste back home – there is no way they are getting my $40……

Ah. That must be why, when I took my e-waste with great confidence to Mitchell, I got charged $40 and told the legislation wasn’t in yet. I had thought it was. So obviously no breath-holding, then? Really got my goat that I had to pay for the privilege of them selling my stuff.

beejay76 said :

Someone might be sure of the date, but new legislation is on the brink of coming in that will allow you to dump e-waste for free at Mitchell (and maybe elsewhere, I don’t know). Perhaps ask Canberra Connect if they know. I’m pretty sure it’s within the next 6 months or so…..

You must mean the long awaited national scheme for e-waste which appears to have been stalling for ages. I believe it was supposed to start last year. Let’s hope it actually manages to start sometime this year! Wouldn’t be too confident of that though..

Someone might be sure of the date, but new legislation is on the brink of coming in that will allow you to dump e-waste for free at Mitchell (and maybe elsewhere, I don’t know). Perhaps ask Canberra Connect if they know. I’m pretty sure it’s within the next 6 months or so…..

See if Renewable Processes will take them. They’re e-waste recyclers, though I think they mainly deal with PCs and televisions.

They’re located at Parkwood Recycling Precinct in Macgregor.

http://renewableprocesses.com.au/