What will the EC do about this?
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--- John Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And here we have I guess the commercial factor stepping in as in:
>
> 1 Hmmmmmmm we can't sell it to the electronics industry anymore
>
> 2 Where can we sell it?
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nic Bowker
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:15 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [LF] wrong somewhere ?
>
> Well lest we forget what's going on in the UK at the moment.
>
> The other night I had sat down in front of the television, and was
> bombarded
> with an advert that left me going "Wha?????!?!".
>
> Basically there's a new 16,000 piece partwork magazine (month by month
> it
> builds into a family favourite!) that is for a Lord of the Rings Chess
> set.
>
> Nothing to untoward there you think, but low and behold the strap line
> "Beautifully cast in pure lead".
>
> Now forgive me if I'm wrong but which is far more likely to increase
> that
> amount of lead in the waste stream? A bunch of pieces of lead for a
> chess
> set that some kid's gonna be bored with collecting by about month 7 and
> will
> never finish the chess board thus dsicarding it in the rubbish or a
> piece of
> highly complex electronics that uses a miniscule amount of lead and
> probably
> wont see the waste stream for 20 years?!
>
> Is it me?
>
> Nic Bowker
> Technical Resources Adviser
> PLASA Ltd.
> 38 St Leonards Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3UT, UK.
> Tel: +44 (0)1323 410335 : Fax: +44 (0)1323 646905
> Email: [log in to unmask] : Website: www.plasa.org
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ajay
> Sent: 19 September 2006 10:46
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LF] wrong somewhere ?
>
>
> Hi Lf group
> Just last Sunday we had a small outing to an old 300 years+ old fort
> around
> 150KM away from Mumbai and around 850meters above MSL .It was the
> capital of
> the erstwhile Mahratta King Shivaji ( checkout the pictures at at
> www.raigadropeway.com)
> While most of the fort is in ruins and the woodwork burnt down by
> invaders
> we saw that many stonewalls were standing in their majesty untouched
> ,unaffected by all these years of natures torture
> Our learned guide told us that the wall stones were cemented together by
> a
> mixture of lime,jaggery and LEAD
> (jagerry is a type of local unrefined sugar from sugarcane and is
> available
> even now in lumps and not crystals)
>
> Admitted that the construction was not 'RoHS compliant' but looking at
> the
> longetivity one really starts thinking on the 'reliability issues' of
> Lead
> free???!!!!
>
> And here are we doubting the reliability of our electronics barely a
> year
> after today!
> Are we right or
> ajay Moghe
>
>
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