Got a HDTV and Helped Pay For Someone To Get Rid of Theirs
Decided to bite the bullet and buy a new TV – so decided to get an LCD to really enjoy my HDTV cable. Golf and hockey never looked so good.
Yes, it was more $$ than I was used to, but hey, Canada $ at par will eventually take hold.
Paying the bill and I noticed that on top of PST and GST, they hit me with a disposal fee. I wasn’t getting rid of a TV, I was buying one.
So why the fee?
The province wide Return-It Electronics Program, a levy, ranging from $10 to $45, is applied to all new desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, fax machines and televisions.
Encorp, a federally incorporated not-for-profit product stewardship corporation (?), is running the program along with the Electronics Stewardship Association of British Columbia, an industry led agency.
So I guess I am paying for others to throw theirs away… I promised to throw mine away in Alberta if that helps.
Nope – pay the fee sir.
They also get a fee (on top of the deposit fee) for bottles and cans and look after the recycling.
God bless them.
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June 27th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Amen…
They are robbing us blind.
It there is an enviro reason to grab $$ they will
The carbon tax may be the final straw
I’ll go to Alberta to buy my flatscreen – the lower prices, no sales tax and enviro fee will pay my gas to Calgary
And I get to party at the Stampede
Great blog