Fortunately, "EVERY electronic device eventually ends up in a land fill" is a patently false statement. At least in the US and probably to a greater extent in Europe, almost all electronic devices are recycled. They're shredded and the metals are chemically extracted and separated. It's probably less expensive than constantly sourcing raw materials from ores and then throwing those products in a landfill five years later, so the recycling is a commercially viable venture that requires no government mandates. The market can manage this environmentally friendly process, which probably implies that electronics recycling is a worldwide phenomenon, regardless of any government policies that may exist.
On 2/24/19 4:14 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > The reason they have banned lead is that EVERY electronic device eventually > ends up in a land fill. The lead then leaches into the water table. > Sounds silly that tiny phone might contaminate an entire aquifer but Apple > sells something like five million phones every month and now that the > market is started this means 5 million phones go into landfills every > month. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
