Re: ROHS: using up non-ROHS component stocks


"Peter" <z180@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert Latest <boblatest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No it isn't. There has been an established recycling path for
battery lead for decades. It's essentially a closed system.

Of course I don't know what amount of lead leak out of that
system over time, and how it compares to the quantity of lead in
electronics.

The recycling scheme does exist but car batteries get chucked out
everywhere you look. Lots get chucked into rubbish skips, or left by
the roadside.

The tiniest amount of lead thus lost will far exceed the amount of
lead in consumer electronics.
You are rather underestimating just how big the useage of lead is in
electronics, and overestimating how many batteries are dumped. However the
biggest problem with battery 'recycling', is that most of it is done
abroad, with terrifying levels of pollution at the recycling sites
involved...

Then you have all the lead used in the building trade; mostly exposed
to rain and thus draining directly into the ground.
Building lead, and lead water pipes, basically put almost nothing into the
ground water _unless_ (in the case of water pipes), they are used in areas
with peat soils. Building lead builds an oxide layer in a few days, and
then is really remarkably inert. The problem with lead in electronics, is
when this goes into dumps, the acid in the leachate from other things does
erode it quite quickly. However again the passage into groundwater on a
properly designed dump was almost zero. Unfortunately, one 'apparently
informative' assessment of this said otherwise (since retracted..).

I don't think the idiots in Brussels ever thought this through
properly.

Luckily there is the "control and monitoring" exemption, and some
others, and a great deal of non-consumer business can continue to
exist under that umbrella.
Yes. Unfortunately, like most badly designed laws, the result will
probably be more pollution of different types. Electronics which has
generally become quite remarkably reliable, tending to fail quicker, more
dumping, and more problems from other things...

Finally, one can lie. Already, as I can see from a large pile of boxes
which have just arrived from the Far East, sticking an "ROHS" sticker
onto every box is becoming standard procedure. The products inside are
not even affected by ROHS... It's like the CE marking on everything
including toilet paper; the whole thing just became worthless within a
year or two.

Best Wishes


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