Ontario, Canada (AHN) - Ontario residents are on a recycling binge. After considering last week tacking a few dollars on the purchase of new tires to fund a tire recycling program, the same formula will be applied to the purchase of new TV sets and personal computers.

If signed into law on Monday, Ontario residents would have to pay an extra $9.74 ($10 Canadian) for a new TV set and $12.66 ($13 Canadian) for a new computer.

The $60.38 million ($62 million Canadian) five-year recycling plan would increase the number of landfill sites to 655 from the current 167, enough to take in the current load of the existing landfills at 75,300 tons.

With the levy, the province expects to hike its electronic recycling rate from 27 percent to 60 percent after five years, said Glenda Gies, executive director of Waster Diversion Ontario. At present electronic recycling programs are paid for by manufacturers, importers and producers of electronic products, ranging from $0.31 cents to $12.65 per product.

Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen told the Toronto Star, "We have a choice as a society. We can either let it all wind up in a landfill site... or we're going to keep this stuff, as much as possible, out of landfills and I really think that's what recycling and reusing is all about."