>> (I assume this also why you have to pay the hazardous eWaste
>> purchase-time fee on LCD monitors?  Maybe not.  I can't see
>> them repealing that tax just because RoHS has come along...)
> speaking of ROHS does it ban the use of mercury in general purpose 
> flourescents (flourescent lights for special purposes like LCD 
> backlights have a specific exception in ROHS to allow continued use 
> of mercury)

ROHS is brain dead.
But, you hopefully already know that.
It strains at gnats and swallows camels.
It bans what people with insufficient knowledge thought could be 
banned without problems (lead in solder) while allowing vastly more of 
the same H.S. to be used in the same product if it's unavoidable.

Hence the eponymous vast quantities of lead in a lead acid battery and 
cadmium in a nickel cadmium battery are permitted in a product where a 
trace of lead on the PCB is not. I wonder how well a "tin-acid" 
battery work? :-) (I suspect can hazard a fairly accurate guess).



        Russell

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