Plan drawn up to reduce amount of waste from electronic gadgets
In a society that loves using gadgets for all sorts of things, a plan has been drawn up to reduce the amount of waste generated by such electronic gadgets and promote recycling.
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority yesterday issued the plan for consultation.
The plan aims to provide guidance to stakeholders managing electrical waste and electronic equipment. It highlights Malta’s commitments under European legislation, in particular the achievement of reuse, recycling and recovery targets.
It identifies the roles and responsibilities of the various economic operators and outlines the infrastructure and financial measures deemed necessary to manage electrical equipment generated locally.
The EU’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive aims to reduce the amount of electrical and electronic equipment being produced and to encourage its reuse, recycling and recovery.
Feedback to the proposed plan can be sent to Waste, Air, Radiation and Noise Unit, Environment Protection Directorate, Mepa, St Francis Ravelin, Floriana or via e-mail on contact.unitD@mepa.org.mt by October 31.
The full consultation document can be viewed at www.mepa.org.mt.
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Joseph Vassallo
Sep 11th 2011, 01:09
Eco tax us collected when you buy a computer or computer case.... €40.
It was meant to safeguard against land pollution from bulky desktop housings like full- midi- or mini-towers.
So why is it also being charged on small items like iPad, tablet, laptop and netbook PCs?
Motherboards, daughter-boards, memory and anything that plugs into them has a small amount of gold lining on the connections; this can be retrieved by those who know how and with the price of gold being what it is, surely this possibility should be researched or at least find a place where they can be shipped for such processing; I understand there are many places in India that do this because they buy huge stocks from UK. But beware... they have also been known to recover data from hard-drives and abuse it, so before you dump a PC, format the drive and overwrite it several times to make it near impossibly to recover what you had on it.
B Agius
Sep 10th 2011, 15:49
Well....well....this is another excuse to hide behind another new tax the government will be introducing as part of the budget or just the day after.......a tax on electronic parts....which basically make part of everything these days.
Could be the case that as a compensation he will be reducing the Income Tax (about time).......
Mr robert micallef
Sep 10th 2011, 12:24
more paper work and tax for the Maltese business community, eco tax, vat, vrt, nso yearly statistics. and someone had said that this government will reduce the red tape and burden. are we really surprised that people prefer to buy online these days?
Adrian Cardona
Sep 10th 2011, 09:48
Let me guess....another 'Eco' tax in the offing....
Please choose the reason of your report below: