Roger27

Lightly skimming over the bill is all I did as well I confess. True, there are no exorbitant fees, but a mandatory "registration fee" (a tax by any other name, which will be passed on to the consumer) of $2,500/year is substantial for a small business. Not to mention all the administrative planning and reporting tasks that take up time that a smaller company might not have to spend. And to what end? It's not like a Sony TV can only be recycled by Sony.

I am totally in support of recycling TVs, and support environmental groups getting people to be responsible, but the answer should not be to burden each individual manufacturer with the same redundant requirements. That's a hidden tax and one which will inevitably weigh more heavily on the little guys. If Best Buy can profitably recycle them for $10/set, maybe the problem is already solving itself? A few well-designed incentives might do the trick as well.