🚀 go-pugleaf

Ian Jackson wrote:

> In message <504a4ce2e9dave@davenoise.co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)"
> <dave@davenoise.co.uk> writes
> >In article <grpvif$6te$1@news.motzarella.org>,
> >   William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> PS: I'm bothered that electronic products increasingly have RoHS labels
> >> on the box, and statements that they use non-lead solder. I really
> >> /don't/ believe that a lot of lead is leaching from waste sites into the
> >> water supply, so we aren't likely to see much, if any, reduction in the
> >> amount of lead (and lead compounds) in our water supply (is there any
> >> hard science on this?), while the reliability of electronic products is
> >> likely to decline.
> >
> >> I like to say that there is no such thing as a hazardous substance. The
> >> hazard occurs from how the substance is used (or misused).
> >
> >I believe - in Europe at least - it's more to do with H&S in the work
> >place rather than the environment.
>
> More like job creation for the legislators in Brussels.

Oh those morons. They screwed this one up rotten. Heard of WEEE ? Implemented
nowhere as far as I can see. My local council didn't even reply to a request as
to where I should dispose of old computers or CFLs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electronic_Equipment_Directive

Graham