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Papers by Krista Botsford

• RoHS Recast

  by Dr. Ronald C. Lasky, Krista Botsford

  Even today, its is not widely understood that the fundamental reason that the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) law was put into effect was to support its sister recycling Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) law. It is simply much safer, easier and cheaper to recycle electronics equipment that contains little toxic materials. The bill for the industry to convert to RoHS compliant assembly has been estimated at over USD $40 billion, a figure we think is low. RoHS has had the unintended benefit of making uncontrolled recycling of electronic waste in third world countries much safer for workers and environment. National Geographic published an excellent article on this need.

  RoHS, electronic

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  Posted on 9 Mar 2010

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