Just quoting someone else on the list. I never thought a few people
standing on the edge of a 20 acre landfill, tossing their spent PX13s in,
would make much of a difference.
John
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From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] New OM-1N and battery problem
> John H. wrote:
>
> >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"?
>
> If that were true, I don't think that importation or hazardous materials
> disposal would be issues, which they are. They would just move the
factory
> next door to the local third world NIKE shoe plant, reality being what it
> is.
>
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California, USA
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