Email: Steve Coe
DEQ eWaste program components
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Electronic Waste (eWaste) Management Activities
Program Components
- eWaste Management Advisory Committee
- First Meeting: April 27, 2004: 16 members present
- Membership: state agencies, local governments, EPA, eWaste collectors and processors
- Committee consensus
- Existing collection/processing infrastructure viable
- Participants willing to pay user fees
- No new legislative action needed at this time
- Continue DEQ information clearinghouse activities
- Develop Guiding Principles for Virginia eWaste management programs
- EPA Region III eCycling Demonstration Project (2001-2004)
- EPA Region III states (Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC) sponsored eCycling collection events
- Final report on project issued in 2004 (www.epa.gov/reg3wcmd/ecyclingfinalreport.htm)
- eWaste Data Conformity Project with EPA
- Partipant in project development and implementation
- Field tested with 4 Virginia localities
- Reporting Form Finalized (Data Form - PDF)
- Grant Goals - Seek grants to further support eWaste management
- Target non-participants, especially rural areas - DELL Grant
- Conduct training workshops
- Demonstrate curbside collection
- Target problem areas
- Information Clearinghouse Activities, especially the Website
- Localities offering eCycling
- Mail-In eCycling
- eCycling Vendors
- eWaste Management Working Papers
- 04-01 DEQ Proposal for an eWaste Advisory Committee
- 04-02 eCycling and eWaste Management
- 04-03 EPA Proposed Rule
- 04-04 eWaste Management Recommendations
- 04-05 Guiding Principles for eWaste Management in Virginia
- 04-06 DEQ eWaste Program Components
- 04-07 Dell Grant Guidelines and Rural Selection Criteria