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From The Washington Post:
"Starting next year, computer makers that want to do business in Maryland must kick in up to $5,000 annually to help recycle their products under a new state law designed to cope with the roughly 60,000 tons of "electronic waste" that pile up in Maryland each year."

And so the Maryland joins Maine in helping big business squash the smaller competition, similar to the way big oil companies killed mom and pop gas stations 20 years ago.

View the story here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053101502.html

View the bill here:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/HB0575.htm