There are now 17 states with similar programs; the
National
Center for Electronics Recycling
tracks such laws. It estimates that just
under 50 percent of the US population is now covered by such
measures.
They should be making a dent in the mountains of electronic
garbage created in the U.S; in 2007, Americans generated about 232 million units of computer and TV-related E-waste, of which only 18 percent was recycled.