Recycle Your Broken Vacuum Cleaner

If you have a broken vacuum cleaner, you have a recycling challenge.  In many places it is illegal to put a vacuum cleaner in the trash, and rightfully so.  However, most local recycling programs do not accept intact vacuum cleaners, although you may be able to disassemble it and recycle specific metal or plastic parts.  Good luck with that.  My online research indicates that you can often sell non-working vacuums on Ebay, presumably for parts.  Similarly, a local repair shop might take it off your hands for parts.  All of this seems unnecessarily complicated.  According to Dyson's website, in the United Kingdom, Dyson will pick up your old vacuum for free anywhere on the UK mainland, under Europe's WEEE initiative, when you buy a new Dyson vacuum online at http://www.dyson.co.uk/.  (WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and is a law enacted in Europe in 2007 to reduce electronics in landfills.)  That does not help us in the United States.  Why don't we have such a law in the United States and what can we do about it?  Share your ideas.