[sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY

[Rainer Buchty]

> And isn't the other big issue that a lot of the basically disposable
> electronics, or the PC boards anyway, are arriving in places like China and
> India to be melted down and then the industrial waste is just dumped into
> landfills?  They probably are using both industrial-strength acids as well as
> heat guns, etc. which generates lots of heavy-metal waste.  I'm sure that I
> read something recently about this in the news.

But is that cured by RoHS and the likes? No. Ok, now certain stuff isn't 
in there anymore, but the way they do their recycling business down 
there is quite, erm, "interesting" to say the least. 

They showed pictures of that on a symposium I recently attended... 
Scary.

Rainer