On 10 Oct, 19:01, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Boltar wrote:
LUL seem to be falling in love with electronic ads , whether they be the
LCD monitor type such as all the way up the main escalators at Tottenham
court road or the projection type being tried out at Euston. An article
in the metrotravel section in Metro today wibbles on about how it'll
save lots of stuff from going to landfill but surely the extra
electricty used will more than outweigh any small advantages gained from
no paper waste?

Also, it's not as if display screens are waste-free - they do get thrown
away eventually, and there are all sorts of nasties in them. A friend of
mine works on this for the EPA in the US - it's called E-waste:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-waste

And it's a surprisingly big problem.

tom



I'd say it's a massive problem - not sure how surprising it is though,
given the disposable consumer electronics age in which we live and are
all a part of.

I've got a box of broken electronic bits I'd like to recycle, kept on
the understanding that doing so was going to get easier in the future.
Alas there's no sign of me being able to do so easily anytime soon.

Plus when you do recycle such items they sometimes find themselves in
some totally unsafe recycling operation in Shenzen, where some poor
******* spends his days de-soldering components whilst breathing in
toxic fumes.

Ah, the information age - isn't it wonderful.