Electronics Waste

Facility regulation

DEQ has new guidance that clarifies how DEQ solid waste and hazardous waste permit and compliance staff will use existing laws and regulations to address potential environmental concerns at electronic waste handling facilities. DEQ’s application of this guidance will:

• Ensure that electronics collected and handled for recycling, shredding, grinding or transforming do not create environmental and human health impacts.
  
• Ensure that electronic waste storage and handling meets solid and hazardous waste requirements to protect human and environmental health.
  
• Address the growing electronics waste stream in Oregon. Factors that will contribute to this growth include more electronics on the market and the Oregon’s E-Cycle Program initiated in January 2009. The 2010 landfill ban on covered electronic devices is also increasing this electronic waste. 

Documents and publications

• Fact sheets
  • Disposal ban of electronic devices
  • Electronic Waste Collector's Guide to Handling Cathode Ray Tubes
    
• Disposal ban outreach materials
  The provided materials include a sample article, a poster and bill insert.
• Draft Electronics (E-Waste) Operations Plan template
• Draft Electronics Material Recovery Facility Permit
• Electronics Waste Collector and Dismantler Site Visits
• Internal Management Directive on E-Waste Handling

Other resources

Oregon E-Cycles

• Service Providers
  An Oregon E-Cycles web page directed toward service providers who want to participate in the program as a collector, transporter or recycler.
  

• CRT Recycling Resource Guide
  Resources for processors and recyclers of cathode ray tube devices