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EU Proposing Mandatory Battery Recycling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the recycle-or-else dept.

Ironsides writes "The BBC Reports that the European Union is working on a directive to mandate battery recycling. Among other things, it will ban more than trace amounts of cadmium and mercury and require all batteries to be removeable. If it passes, it will be interesting to see how this affects such devices as MP3 players that generally do not have removeable rechargeable batteries."

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  1. Battery Bonfire by x_MeRLiN_x · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's wrong with just burning them?

  2. Natalie's Restaurant: Two little piles o' garbage by Tackhead · · Score: -1, Troll
    Once upon a time, there was a thread in a Slashdot article called "Whose Burden is it to Recycle Computers?".

    It was about the mandatory recyclin' o' computer stuff in Californ-eye-ayy.

    An' in that thread, some enterprisin' geeky soul said that if he had to pay a recyclin' tax, why he'd...

    > > > pay the "old pit by the highway" to take care of my old computers...

    And some other enterprisin' geeky soul said that if someone used the old pit by the highway, well,

    > > rather than make two small piles of garbage. . .
    > > [he'd] Sing it with me the next time it comes around on the guitar.

    An' that's when it came around on the guitar.

    This post is called "Natalie's Restaurant", and it's about Natalie, and the Restaurant, but "Natalie's Restaurant" is not the name of the Restaurant, it's the name of the post, and that's why I named this post "Natalie's Restaurant".

    You can get any grits you want at Natalie's Restaurant,
    You can get any grits you want at Natalie's Restaurant,
    Monitors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBatteries, just around the back,
    Just a half a mile from the railroad track,
    And you can get any grits you want at Natalie's Restaurant.

    Now, it all started about two posts ago, it's on two posts ago when CmdrTaco and I went up to eat some hot grits at Natalie's restaurant...

    ...we got up there, found a couple of monitors in the dumpster behind Natalie's, and we figured it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the spare monitors and distribute 'em around to our other friends at the University that didn't have 21" CRTs, 'cause that's what the Movement was supposed to be all about in the first place, right?

    Now ain't y'all glad it was a Microbus instead of a MicroVAX that had all the implements of destruction? I mrean really, you ever try to power a MicroVAX on batteries?

  3. Re:OMG!HI UR A FAG by per1odic · · Score: -1, Troll

    HEH.. UR A FAG * Please try to keep posts on topic. * Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. * Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. * Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. * Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should b

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    If you are a smelly south indian, I hate you and I think that you are racially inferior. But that's just my opinion.
  4. Re:OMG! by DRM_is_Stupid · · Score: 1, Troll

    The iPod's sole purpose in life is to play music. So it plays music. Why should I need to know any more than that?

    Because there's more to life than playing your music. Like caring about Earth, and your wallet.