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
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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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