"It evens out in the end and national sales data has been the best available data and the most consistent." The suit also complains that the company, which was founded in 2002 as a flat-panel display TV manufacturer, is routinely responsible for recycling CRT televisions that were made before Vizio entered the market. CRT televisions account for the bulk of the volume of end-of-life TVs entering the U.S. waste stream. Walter Alcorn, the vice president of environmental affairs and industry sustainability for the Consumer Electronics Association, told E-Scrap News Vizio is "exercising its constitutional rights against the state program that is the least popular state mandate for most consumer electronics manufacturers." The Vizio suit indicates the company is supportive of "a law requiring television brand-owned sellers to pay for the recycling of televisions," but it adds recycling obligations should be based on the composition of the waste stream itself.