Good morning, Gordon

Thanks for the posting the link and for your usual rigorous analysis. I was
reminded of reading recently that the world is in drowning in an "ocean of
electronic waste"
This report seems to have defined the size of the ocean... ;-)

I learned recently from a respected source that Russia offered to the EU a
few years back, to landfill all of the world's electronic waste in an
uninhabitable region of Siberia at little if any cost and presumably so long as the
delivery was paid for by the depositor. The land is frozen year round so leaching
would not be a concern it was said. (Though we already know that it would not
be a concern anyway)

This offer was apparently accompanied by an argument that in the future when
suitable methods are developed, it would be a centralized depository for
recyclable materials in the proposal to the EU but it was rejected, presumably
without consideration.

I don't have a second source for this story yet and cannot assert any or all
of the details to be true (except for the fact that leaching has never been
proven a risk)

Perhaps there is someone out there has heard a similar story. Having once
lived in Russia for almost two, I sense this could be true.

Best regards,
Joe


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