Spot on comments, gents The effective use of humor is a good salve for the
bite of the unfortunate reality of the current nonsense.

You are also on the mark, Bev. It is important not to shoot the messenger but
we can certainly ask the reporter to be more diligent before putting finger
to keyboard and we can call his journalistic skills into account. A single
source for this story perhaps?... and no fact checking?  I intend to send him a
quick note with some other source material to consider and weigh in balance it
he will do so. I don;t think his actions to have been pernicious. Lead
poisoning is a serious matter, the question is how does one get lead poisoning and
electronics is not the culprit. It appears he was just simply not completely
informed when he wrote.

There in is the rub in much of what we are seeing. Journalism appears not to
be today what it used to be. And, unfortunately, people are too willing to
believe what they read in the papers and too many papers print too few
retractions and corrections to be credible in my mind.

To err is, after all, human but to ignore the error seems to be all too human
as well.

"Now researchers will be continuing the experiment to find out what
happens in a real landfill.

The experiment will occur in a section of Polk County's North Central
Landfill near Lakeland in a two-year research project sponsored by Polk
County and the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management,
a research center based at the university's College of Engineering.

It will be interesting to see what they find."

It will be interesting indeed...

Like Steve, I wonder what, if any, controls they are putting in place. For
example, the state of assembly, volume per volume, material mix, ( i.e. how much
vinegar they are going to add ;-)  ,... etc.)

Again, like Steve, I wonder also why existing landfills likely having many
years of lead baring waste will not serve the same purpose.

Oh well, at least we get to see our tax dollars at play ...er... ah... I mean
at work ;-)

And so it goes...

I really don't like being so cynical but I am deeply disturbed by the general
lack forthrightness in this matter. Call leadfree "legislatively mandated" if
you will, but don't call it "green" or "environmentally friendly" without
providing proof of the same. Thus far all evidence I have seen is that
traditional solders will win both of those latter titles, especially if there is intent,
at the end of the day to require recycling.

Some simple advice to the EU Parliament it they want to be considered honest
and credible...  Wake up and look at the data and make informed and reasoned
rather than emotional decisions for the betterment of your society and the
world.

Best to all,
Joe

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