Question posed by the Moderator to Jean-Daniel Saphores and Julie Schoenung: How do you see current and future legislation affecting public opinion?

Julie Schoenung responded: I think the current legislation in California where there are mandates related to e-waste has really focused on recycling and there have been successful responses to that. The recycling rate in California for e-waste has definitely increased. The accessibility to drop-off points has definitely increased. So I think that by requiring recycling and making it available and educating people that they can indeed recycle their cell phones and other electronic wastes that indeed there is more and more initiative to do so. Not everything is being recycled. We looked at chargers for cell phones, which are just as ubiquitous as the phones themselves, and there are not very good infrastructure for actually recycling those. People collect them but then they eventually end up being thrown away. In terms of green design, I don’t think that any of this legislation is making the consumer more conscientious about trying to use cell phones or computer technology longer. Trying to find a secondary user for their e-waste if it’s just obsolete but still functioning. I think there is still plenty of room for targeting more than just recycling. Like targeting consumer choices when they purchase as well as when they are done using their products.