Long time ago, wasn't it mentioned that the reason for banning mercury
items was mainly to keep the people who made them from being exposed to
mercury and not what happened to the items after they were "spent"?
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Garry D. Lewis <glewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] New OM-1N and battery problem
> >>Restrict mercury batteries to a small minority of photographers who use
old manual
> cameras and appear to be doing something about the environment.<<
>
> An how many cameras have been produced, over the years since 1973, that
required a "mercury"
> battery? Counting both Olympus and non-
> Olympus models, I would venture to say way more than "a small minority".
Why is it that everyone
> wants to "clean up the enviroment", but " don't start in my backyard" . We
are so unwilling to give
> up our "small minority" of the problem, why then sould we hippocritically
ask "industry" to give up
> their "tons" of the problem. Those that point at others and say " make
them stop" , should first be
> sure 'their' fingers are clean.
> Minamata was all about the damage of a village, by mercury poison,
by an uncaring industry.
> Well in case you haven't thought about it,
> "we" are 'part' of the mercury industry( both in and outside of
photography). If we didn't demand
> it, "they" wouldn't produce it. Waiting for the "other guy" to solve the
problem, only gets you a
> bigger problem. Yes, there are worse and bigger pollutions / polluters in
this world. But that
> doesn't justify our ignoring our own culpability in this enviromental mess
we are heading towards.
> ALL should adopt the attitude that " the buck stops here".
>
>
yours down
> off my soapbox,
>
>
> Garry D. Lewis
>
>
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