Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Ian White wrote:
The basic aim is very praiseworthy: to drastically reduce the amount of
lead going into landfill in the solder content of scrap electronic
equipment.

But lead being a natural mineral surely occurs in some concentration
anyway in some parts of the world? Or am I missing something?

As far as lead in solder is concerned, those arguments are already over.
The global electronics industry is changing to lead-free soldering, and
that's unstoppable.

My point was that a forced and hurried change is not the right way to do
it. Not if safety-critical systems become less reliable, failure rates
in general increase... and by the way, more scrap electronics goes into
landfill. Less lead, but even more junk.


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Ian White