National e-waste legislation to keep hardware costs lower

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A U.S. congressional caucus has met twice in the past month to determine if the growing e-waste problem could be solved by national legislation, which server vendors support over state or municipal regulations.

The E-Waste Working Group, as it is called, formed as environmental groups and some U.S. congressmen came to feel that there should be a federal law on the matter. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than four million tons of e-waste, some of it with toxic ingredients, hit landfills each year.
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Major server manufacturers would probably prefer no legislation at all, but federal regulations, as opposed to local ones, enable them to standardize equipment takeback programs. If legislation on electronic waste is varied state to state and city to city, manufacturers could pay more to recycle products, and the cost could trickle down to end users.
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David Isaacs, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP) director of government and public policy, said the company's goal is always to get as much resell value out of the equipment it is taking back from customers.
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Why am I suspicious of this effort? The goal is very nice but somehow I don't trust this industry focused group and their profit motives to result in the best solution for society.