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Batteries leak heavy metals and other chemicals, which then leach through the soil into the surrounding land, and into water supplies. Yum.
by antidoh 14y ago
Batteries leak heavy metals and other chemicals, which then leach through the soil into the surrounding land, and into water supplies. Yum.
- javert 14y agoSo create a startup that runs landfills where the chemicals don't leak.
- toomuchcoffee 14y ago...but until that happens (if it ever does), presumably you're in 100% agreement that we'll need to make sure that batteries, and other toxic components of personal computing industry end up somewhere besides unprotected landfills. Which is, of course, precisely the point of SF's decision not to support products that don't appear to have such safeguards built into their lifecycle.