Lawmakers revive bill to restric e-scrap exports

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rickzeien

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If passed, what impact do you think this will have on domestic prices....International prices... for e-scrap?

https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2019/06/28/lawmakers-revive-bill-to-restrict-e-scrap-exports/

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The Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act (SEERA) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week by legislators in California and New York as H.R. 3559.

Yep! That would explain it!
 
The bill would allow exports of tested and functional devices as well as some materials recovered from e-scrap through processing, such as commodities destined for smelters.

I don't think that it will have much impact on prices because of that line right there.

The big smelters have their fingers in bills like this...they keep their income streams protected.

Now, smaller items like hard drive shells, or copper breakage that needs manual labor to sort/disassemble, and general junk electronics like that, that MAY be ending up in third world countries...it may lower some of their values. But their values are already pretty low anyway.

If anything, it may help develop some domestic technology to deal with this stuff. But unlikely, laws don't tend to motivate progress.
 
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