LMAO ! WEEE hits the headlines

Hello Graham,

Quote: "These proposals are good for consumers,..."

ROFL!

Quote: "Under the new regime, the major electrical stores will pay into a fund that will give money to local councils to expand their recycling centres to cope with the flood of waste. Separately, manufacturers will pay specialist companies to process the millions of items collected at the council sites."

I can smell where that goes and on the German site that was discussed in detail. They are already paying in the "system". A tax is a tax is a tax. Pretty soon whatever efficiency is left in that scheme could plummet, money diverted off to some other causes, union cronyism, pork barrel projects, fat travel and pension benefits for council members. And then so-and-so wants a major transfer station in his district in eastern Podunk because his constituents need jobs.

What if RoHS turns out to be a major blunder and increases waste big time? The sad news is that the net payers will be people like you. 100% of it.

That made me chuckle too. Wait 'til they hear how TVs are failing after 3-5 yrs or whatever.

I detect some reluctance for companies to be even remotely interest in 'recycling'. What exacly are you meant to do with the bits of a dismantled TV for eample ? The plastics can go for recycling of course. The rest ???? What's it good for ?

I suspect one issue is going to be that this stuff will simply end up in the ground anyway 'cos no-one wants it !

I suspect it will do.

It might *finally* put the bureacrats in Brussels under a very bright and critical spotlight at last though.

Graham

Eeyore wrote: [..snip..]

Difficult to imagine the hopelessly mindless and subhuman mentality that would focus on a crap consumer product story in total disregard and ignorance of the much more interesting and poignant "Deadly Legacy of a Goon" on the same page- pathetic.

~~~~~~~~ "This triggered fury at the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances(AMDEA) whose members include Electrolux, Hoover, Bosch and Siemens, Hotpoint and Indesit.

Its members are particularly unhappy they will be hit with the bill for recycling all past electrical waste, much of it produced by brands that no longer exist. " ~~~~~~~~

Is this the same Electrolux that welds its motor casings shut so that it is impossible to change the bearings or recycle the copper?