🚀 go-pugleaf

Eeyore wrote:

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> Ian Jackson wrote:
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>> 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

Here in the former Colonies, we have solved a more vexing disposal problem:
what to do with nuclear power plant waste.  We just keep dumping it into
the pools conveniently located adjacent to each plant.  After a while, it
decays to (um) lead?