William Eade wrote:
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The problem with dumping anything electronic (and a lot of other stuff
for that matter) is that the government and big business perverted the
environmentalists old methods of disposing of scrap from the user who
was once able to SELL some of the items for a few bucks - car batteries
is a good example - to making the consumer PAY to get rid of it.
A major incentive for recycling programs came about when the government
started giving pollution "credits" to companies who regularly pollute.
So, if an oil company dumps oil in the ocean, they can offset that bad
behavior (and proportionally reduce both their fines and the bad PR
image) by appearing to pro-environment in other ways, such as buying up
car dismantlers and shredding cars. This allows companies to basically
bank these credits to offset future debits earned by pollution in other
areas.
They are not interested in recycling, they are interested in the brownie
(greenie) points. Of course while the right hand does the
environmentally sensitive thing, the left hand continues to pollute as
usual. I suspect that if you look close enough at any recycling program,
you'll find some business entity (probably the infamous Big Corp) behind
the curtain.
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The one that really floored me was when I investigated the reason for
making CRT's - TV and Computer - hazardous was NOT the chemicals for the
screen but the LEAD IN THE GLASS. How many eons is it going to take to
leach the lead out of the glass?
Bill Eade
And so a lot perfectly good manufactured products go into a politically
correct pile rather than to somewhere where people are trailing the 21st
century on a towline.
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