Newsgroup: sci.electronics

In article <1991Dec2.183659.24706@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> gdw@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (gordon.d.woods) writes:
[...]
>Your luck may be changing; new legislation under way may require
>products with easily REMOVABLE batteries so they will not be
>thrown away in the garbage and be an environmental hazard. They
>might just make them replacable in the process. What you do with
>the batteries after you've removed them is anybody's guess.
>Probably can't get rid of them because they're hazardous. Isn't
>politics great!

Special used battery deposit containers were to be found in most
consumer electronic shops in Germany as far back as two years ago.
I presume that the container contents were then rendered harmless
or recycled.  All Germans I talked to, were very concious of the fact
that batteries should not be thrown away with normal garbage.  (Actualy
the was no normal garbage, I witnessed households sorting their garbage
into paper, glass, aluminum, foodstuff that could rot, batteries and
the rest). 

[This is getting away from sci.electronics, I have changed the followup 
line to sci.environment.]

Diomidis
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