"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:47:22 +0100, "Ian Field"
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"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 19:33:19 +0100, "Ian Field"
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I doubt it. This is how it's done:
http://www.okinternational.org/lead-batteries/Recycling
It's not pretty and probably unsafe, but workable.

Problem is; some dodgy characters have found after employee health &
welfare
costs & environmental precaution, its just cheaper to export the old
batteries to a developing country with slums & street urchins to reclaim
the
metal for a days food.

Would you deny the slum dwellers and street urchins their miserable
income by blocking or taxing such exports? It can be done, but it
would create an "unemployment" problem at the bottom end.

It poisons and sometimes maims the kids that are shoveling molten lead in
their bare feet, and it pollutes large areas of ground & possibly
groundwater.

Ok, so you would let them starve instead. At least the environment
will be safe and someone else can trash their back yard. Given the
choice between the two options, I don't suppose it would be of any
interest to ask the street urchins if they prefer to be poisoned or
starved to death?


I'm sure its a very easy decision for them - so long as you don't let them
in on what horrors they're storing up for the future.