<div id="RTEContent">when was the last time you thre a MiniMoog<br> in the garbage can...<br> <br> The problem is not in the 'lead' or 'cadmium'... its in the<br> mentality that we need a new cell phone THIS week and<br> another, newer one next week.<br> <br> The computers you throw into the landfill are the problem.<br> The consumer crap, designed from the start to be non-repairable.<br> Just buy a new one.<br> <br> Contrast this with our situation. we bring our products back from<br> their very graves...<br> <br> Bob Pease put it well in his book "Troubleshooting Analog<br> Circuits". He said he has several cans of fluorcarbon 'freeze<br> mist'. He mused, so if I throw out the cans, they end up in a landfill<br> and the fluorcarbons hit the atmosphere even faster... and without<br> being of any use to anyone. Now if I use them up and don't buy<br> MORE of the the fluorcabon ones... they still end up in the <br> atmosphere.<br> <br> RoHS is a
disproportionate burden on small manufacturers who do<br> NOT account for the majority of the pollution. Essentially... I cannot<br> be in business, but Motorola, Nokia, etc can.<br> <br> I'd like to see exemption limits by either total weight, or dollar (euro)<br> volume etc.<br> <br> Remember...we have exempted the MILITARY from these guidelines<br> so they are still free to ruin your environment. Depleted Uranium, anyone ???<br> <br> H^) harry (lead-free flamesuit :^)<br><br><b><i>Benjamin Henry <henrybg@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> It's not just about lead. Have you been to rural China? There are some nasty chemicals in the boards we design and build on, and in the components we use every day. Not only that, but the process to fabricate ICs is not efficient or economical by any means. RoHS is attempting to addre!
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this. <br> <br> I don't know if you have been to school for technology, but they're teaching kids ethics now-a-days, and one major aspect of EE and CmpE ethics classes are involving environmental issues. Issues with the FCC, UL, and with local environments. If we keep thinking that the only want to succeed is the way our parents parents did things, we can never progress or feel comfortable knowing there is a whole lot of people with a ton of our waste just on the other side of that sea...angry as shit that they are the ones getting diseases because of our "technology".<br> <br> Anyway. I do agree that it's going to be a difficult hump to pass, but what isn't?<br> <br> <br> -BENRY </blockquote><br></div>