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| I died a little inside today. |
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| peterthenovice:
50 million dollars might be saved every year if only those companies would do the the right thing. |
| M. András:
and they ban the lead from the solder for this insane reason to fill deliberately the landfills with electronics due to idiot managment and laws, how quickly could the new generation learn if those equipments would end up in their hands instead of the landfills, or to schools poorly equipped etc, universities should have give to the intrested students the equipments they no longer use instead of binning it |
| digsys:
OK That was spooky .. Just saw the local news that our Waverley council has (Re-?) Introduced free Electronic waste drop-offs, Including CRTs ... mebbe they're monitoring my posts ???? or me ??? |
| TerraHertz:
--- Quote from: digsys on April 08, 2013, 10:08:56 am ---OK That was spooky .. Just saw the local news that our Waverley council has (Re-?) Introduced free Electronic waste drop-offs, Including CRTs ... mebbe they're monitoring my posts ???? or me ??? --- End quote --- Maybe they watched a youtube video on recovering gold from mobile phones and such. Supposedly quite a lucrative process. |
| Randall W. Lott:
--- Quote from: M. András on April 07, 2013, 03:13:18 pm ---and they ban the lead from the solder for this insane reason to fill deliberately the landfills with electronics due to idiot managment and laws, how quickly could the new generation learn if those equipments would end up in their hands instead of the landfills, or to schools poorly equipped etc, universities should have give to the intrested students the equipments they no longer use instead of binning it --- End quote --- Exactly. I would be thrilled to learn about any sort of gear if I had a chance to play with it. Now no one will. |
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