A bill that eliminates weight targets for electronics collection in favor of giving consumers easy access to drop-off sites has passed the House and Senate in South Carolina. It now goes to the governor's desk.House Bill 4775 would reform the state's extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for electronics to more closely resemble that of Illinois, with a focus on a convenience metric for drop-off sites, instead of a weight target.HB 4775 first passed the state House of Representatives and Senate in April and May, respectively, but then spent a month in conference committee after the House rejected a Senate attempt to link an unrelated bill on plastic pellets to it.
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