"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message

That must be why they are going from country to country dumping toxic
waste until they get chased out.

Or why they have been forced to go to lead free solder.

The free ride the electronics industry has been getting is coming to an
end.

And with it is the age of artificially cheap electronics...

TMT

There is a plant being built in Florida just to recycle electronic parts.
It is becoming profitable on some level. There is certainly enough "raw
material" to be had.