On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> But lead-acid car batteries are still allowed? I am a stout
> environmentalist, but banning lead solder while allowing lead car
> batteries seems ridiculous to me.
>

Nearly 100% of car batteries are recycled. Lead is a valuable mineral,
but it's made difficult to recover when alloyed and spread out all
over a PCB. A lead/antimony car battery can be relatively simple to
recycle.

I don't know for sure, but as an example I don't think many cell
phones would end up being recycled.

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