Hi, Flavio,
You're right, mercury is highly toxic, and it's effects are horrendous. Was it
Eugene Smith who did the photo essay for Life about Minimata (excuse me if I got
the name wrong) Japan in the 50's? Heart-wrenching stuff!
My point was that, compared to the amount of mercury that industries dump into
streams, rivers and lakes, the amount of mercury that would end up in landfills
from cells is miniscule. And, if they were disposed of properly, it would not be
an issue at all.
In northern Quebec (and other parts of Canada as well), thousands of square miles
of water-systems have been polluted by mercury by mega-hydro-electric projects.
Seems that vegetation has minute amounts of mercury in it, and the massive
flooding for hydro reseviors kills those plants, and that mercury is released
into the lakes and rivers, so that the Native People up there aren't supposed to
eat the fish. Problem is it's one of their main sources of food. They don't eat
fish, they starve. Quite a dilemma!
My point simply is, that the Governments, in their wisdom, have consistently
failed to go after the "real" polluters (wouldn't want to hurt the economy, would
we?), while the rest of us are expected to make sacrifices. Having no mercury
cells for my Spotmatic is, I understand, no big deal in the overall scheme of
things. It's just frustrating is all. Meanwhile, the "big guys" continue to get
away with murder. Literally.
regards,
frank
Flavio Minelli wrote:
> Not much, Frank, but heavy metal pollution lasts forever (in human
> lifespan terms) and the effects are really bad, even at low levels of
> intoxication.
> They might be easily treated in an efficent recycling plant but probably
> the problem is most people just dump them.
>
> Flavio
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