William Sommerwerck wrote:
While we're sealing nuclear wastes in glass for long term storage:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1210063125.htm
apparently that's not good enough for sequestering lead from CRTs.

But that's not quite the same thing. It's assumed that broken CRTs will
exposed to rain in landfills. Nuclear wastes aren't supposed to be exposed
to rain or a flow of water.

The thing i find interesting about that is that i read somewhere one way
of stabilizing spent nuclear waste is encapsulating it in glass.
Is a CRT not essentially encapsulated in glass? If the lead is in the
glass and the glass does not break down, how is any quantity of it going
to leach out?



Paying for disposal or recycling when you buy something new, or turning in
the old item when you buy its replacement is probably the best approach.

This is the part that is so simple yet so hard. With mandatory recycling
of used electronics and such, only a small percentage would ever hit the
landfill and the rest would be properly separated and recycled or
disposed of. Screw the ROHS on the front end, take care of it on the
back end.

I truly think these environmentalist wack ohs are just like mid level
bureaucrats. They live to make up rules to justify there existence.
The state of California is a good example. There trying to pass crazy
energy regulations on large flat TV's. Nothing wrong with using less
energy, but these idiots won't be happy until every 50" TV consumes 1/2
watt of power and call the industry a liar if they cannot make one.
These are the same brain surgeons that want you to buy electric cars and
plug them into your garage every night. And how many 50" TV's would it
take to use the same energy as charging your electric car?
Yet there is plenty of energy for that.

If California is so short of energy, they should utilize what plentiful
sources they have now. If they put all the illegal aliens in the state
on large scale hamster wheels hooked to generators, they would have tons
of extra power.

In twenty years or so, we will truly be in a throw away society. There
will be no one left to fix anything. The only thing trades are teaching
anymore are computers. Repairs shops will be excavated in the future
like dinosaurs for artifacts. They will all be extinct.

bob





PS: Someone who can't tell the difference between a CRT and an LCD display
ain't very bright.