[sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS

[Nicholas Gregorich]

Nicholas Gregorich wrote:
> Dave Manley wrote:
>> Rechargable anyone? 426K cell phones thrown out every day in the US.
> 
> This number doesn't really make sense to me. 426 thousand a day for a 
> year is 1.5 billion phones. For 300 million US citizens that's 5 phones 
> a year.
> 

Thanks for the replies, I indeed counted too many zeros (using Google 
calculator). What a difference an order of magnitude can make. :)


Nicholas