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NCER Clearinghouse

Program year 5 ends June 30, 2012. Transactions involving eligible recycled pounds of covered electronic devices (CED) must be completed before July 1, 2012. Eligible pounds of CED must meet all of these requirements:

• Eligible devices
• Collected from Minnesota household sources
• Collected AND recycled during the program year: July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012.
• Collected AND recycled by stakeholders registered for the program year: July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012.

Under the Minnesota law, registered stakeholders must make their own connections to buy and sell pounds of CED before the deadline.

The National Center for Electronics Recycling offers a free online Clearinghouse as one possible way for registered stakeholders to connect to make sales of eligible recycled pounds:
NCER Clearinghouse

How the Clearinghouse works 

This clearinghouse functions as an online bulletin board for collectors and recyclers of covered electronic devices (CED). The clearinghouse is not a formal marketplace: No financial transactions will take place through the site, and the site will not track whether a deal is completed or the terms of sale.

• Using this online system, collectors and recyclers (“offerors”) can post the pounds of CEDs that they have recycled under the Minnesota law and price per pound . 
• Once posted, manufacturers will be able to view listings and the associated documentation and decide whether to “negotiate terms” with an offeror to purchase pounds. 
• If a manufacturer chooses to negotiate terms based on an offeror’s listing, the listing then comes off the site for a period of seven days.  If no deal is reached in that time, the offeror may re-post the listing. 

Manufacturers who wish to acquire pounds via the Clearinghouse are expected to follow the requirements for due diligence for collectors and recyclers (Minn. Stat. § 115A.1318, subd. 1).

Register to access

Check out the clearinghouse at www.electronicsrecycling.org/clearinghouse; you must be registered in order to gain access.

• Instructions for using the NCER Clearinghouse
• E-mail for assistance or questions in the registration and posting process: clearinghouse@electronicsrecycling.org.

Eligible pounds

"Covered electronic devices" (CED) are consumer electronics that can be collected, recycled, and sold as pounds to meet manufacturer recycling obligation.

A "covered electronic device" (CED) is defined in the Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act.  CED are defined in terms of source (from households in Minnesota), device types, and when they are collected. CED must meet all of these criteria:

Source: From "households" in Minnesota

Source: Collected and recycled by stakeholders registered with MPCA for a given program year.

Device types: Any brand

• "Video display devices" (VDD)
• Computers
• Peripherals (includes keyboard, printer, or any other device sold exclusively for external use with a computer that provides input or output into or from a computer)
• Facsimile machines (FAX)
• DVD players
• Video cassette recorders (VCRs)

Eligibility for sale to meet recycling obligation: CED collected in a given program year must be recycled and the pounds sold to a manufacturer before the start of the next program year (July 1).

• Eligible pounds for PY6 must be collected and recycled from July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013, and sold before July 1, 2013.

Do not count as CED

Under Minnesota's law and program, CED are precisely defined. Here are examples which do not meet the definitions in the law and should not be reported under the Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act:

• Exclude: Anything collected from sources other than Minnesota household (e.g., commercial/industrial/institutional, out of state)
• Exclude: Transport packaging (pallets, boxes/gaylords)
• Exclude: Appliances
• Exclude: Cell phones/PDAs
• Exclude: Stereo/audio equipment
• Exclude: Household/small electrics (i.e., toasters, vacuum cleaners)
• Exclude: Electronic media (i.e., CD-ROMs, diskettes, cassettes, backup tapes)
• Exclude: Toner/ink cartridges collected separately (e.g., not as part of a printer or fax machine collected for recycling)