Ecoholics.

The feeling of power must feel great.

What's taking place today would likely not have needed to happen if anyone
had been willing to invest in proper technologies for recycling.

During times of prosperity (or non-crisis), the majority of humans ignore
that their wasteful habits will have consequences.

Would cost effective reclamation of metals from circuit boards been so
difficult or costly to just ignore it?
Yep, it costs too much today to do anything about it.

I'm sure there were many earlier believers in recycling before the 1960s,
but it was easier to ignore the value of recycling. Even now the half-assed
measures to collect and recycle are very inefficient.

Was legislation needed to get folks to separate cans from household waste?
Some places have penalties/fines for finding recycleable materials in a
household's trash cans.. yep, trashcan cops, probably with a good salary and
benefits.
Maybe it's time that commercial and industrial dumpsters were
inspected/monitored.

Waste has been a major issue for a very long time, but no one has wanted to
invest in technologies to efficiently recycle reuseable materials.
Eeeewww, it's garbage.

So it seems that were faced with polluting the small amounts of clean water
left on the planet. But water can be treated.. astronauts drink their own
urine, after all.
But then, they're not eating nicad batteries or other deadly chemicals.

We've all seen what takes place for control over oil, just wait and see the
huge ****storm when the control of clean water becomes a major issue (it's
already started).

Landfill liners are secure, the water is clean, and a few other claims that
are up the top of the list since one was taken off; there's no link between
tobacco and cancer.

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Cheers,
WB
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"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
.com...

Look; we *know* that all kinds of things can leach out of landfills.
There's all kinds of **** in there besides PC boards, enough compounds to
make a chemical brew capable of leaching lead (and other metals) into the
surrounding area.

Yeah, su "they"--you know, the little elves that watch over us all--say
they make sure to seal the landfill, cap it with impervious material, keep
anything from leaching out. Do you believe them? I sure don't.

I think this is just an irresponsible attitude on your part and on others
here. I *totally* agree with your other complaints about lead-free solder:
it's clearly a pain in the ass. But to listen to you and others here go on
about it, you'd think these rules were simply capricious actions of some
pinheaded Eurocrats who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I
think you're wrong about that.

And I don't want to live in an environment full of lead, thank you very
much.


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The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring,
with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.

- Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)