Fern

These people make me sick.

Quote:
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Tuesday passed a set of
amendments which repeat its first-reading demand for an average
compulsory collection target of six kilograms of electroscrap per
inhabitant, per year, from private households, to be achieved by
December 31, 2005.
Unquote

Where I live, which will shortly become an EU member-state, there are
many large households, with 5 or 6 kids, which use electricity only for
lighting and maybe a TV set. How, in all that's sane, are these
households going to produce 30 or 36 kg of electrical waste every year?
I'm sure that my household, of two, does not produce 12 kg per year, on
an average (OK, this year I did replace a laser printer and a computer,
but that's the exception.), yet we use electricity well above the
average, with numerous appliances, many of then over 10 years old.

In fact, I'll go farther: this measure encourages manufacturers to
design stuff to be non-repairable and with a minimal lifetime, which is
the total opposite of sound environmental sense (and cents).

God, please protect me from politicians who haven't got as much sense as
my little fingernail. Amen. (and I'm not being blasphemous or facetious
- I mean it).

Brian


Fern Abrams wrote:
>
> EU LAWMAKERS MAKE PRODUCERS RESPONSIBLE FOR ELECTROSCRAP
>
> STRASBOURG, France, April 10, 2002 (ENS) - The European Parliament is
> determined to ban consumers from throwing old computers, hairdryers,
> cookers, toasters and other such appliances in the bin with unsorted waste
> and to make individual producers finance the recycling or safe disposal of
> electroscrap.
>
> For full text and graphics visit:
> http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-10-02.html