On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sure! > If you have no intention to provide the *names* of the "chemicals involved"... No nutritional labelling requirements for electronic devices, however as described in the EPEAT certification, every plastic part is labelled with respect to recycling classification. http://wiki.laptop.org/images/c/cf/Epeat.ps Furthermore, I would imagine that the XO is still the only laptop to obtain EPEAT Gold certification. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20071022005302/en/Laptop-Child-Creates-Worlds-Greenest-Laptop-Computer > Seriously though, looking at the RoHS it would appear the known toxic > chemicals are bellow 0.1% (1000ppm) on the original material. Considering > volatility and standards, I would say pretty safe! > Standard floor dast wipes in a city home or outdoors soil for example, give > ~200ppm for lead, and in the wilderness soil lead is still 50ppm. > Cadmium is also pretty safe given that its limit in *food colors* is 15ppm. > This would be true for the rest of the chemicals in the list. But I'm > interested on what is not in the list (Not its level necessarily). > > Disclosure: I'm a chemist by training :-) Well, in that case, by all means feel free to put you XO into your spare kitchen blender and solvent extract the scrap to run it through a mass spectrometer. Just don't try to boot the gooey mess left behind. :-) cjl _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
