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Know of any local active volcano to use to recycled old electronics
gear??

It gets it back to raw form and into the environment to let our
decendants
dig it up again for another time around the loop ...

At least all the raw materials are located in the one place in
roughly the required proportions.

:)

Tony

Do I remember correctly that Germany required suppliers to take
back the old equipment and dispose of the materials - eg you buy
a TV and you take the packaging back to the shop - they send it
back up the food chanin until it goes to the box makers for
them to get rid of ... same for the dead TV - you send it back
to the factory for them to recycle back up the chain as well.

Can anyone confirm this?



Amy Dorrit wrote:
> 
> "Alan Liefting" <aliefting@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:3CC5E1BA.8E3BC364@ihug.co.nz...
> > Copied to these newsgroups for comment.
> 
> > Electrical, electronic and computer equipment contains all manner of
> > difficult to recycle substances.  Some of the materials are hazardous.
> > Discarded equipment should be treated as hazardous goods.  It is high
> > time to control this increasingly significant portion of the waste
> > stream.
> 
> Not cost effective. Waste of time Essentially a political statement. Stick
> in sanitary landfill -- safe, effective, cheap. Electronic/electrical gear
> has been buried or burned for a century  -- where is it causing a problem?
> Rotarua causes more air pollution than disposing of electronic waste but, of
> course, that's natural, so we won't close it down.  All that nasty SO2! Acid
> rain!
> 
> Now watch all the greenies and tree-huggers go into bat.