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Papers about RoHS

• An Overview of a Successful Pb-Free Implementation

  by Timothy Jensen, Dr. Ronald C. Lasky

  The clock is ticking, on July 1, 2006 the WEEE Initiative will take effect. Thereafter, all electronic assemblers that sell products in Europe must be ready to convert their assembly processes to Pb-free. The nearness of this date raises the question of what can be done to get ready. In response to this need, we will review a pioneering effort in establishing a Pb-free process.

  pb-free, lead-free, WEEE, RoHS

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  Posted on 4 Mar 2010

• 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

• RoHS: Five Years Later

  by Dr. Ronald C. Lasky

  Are electronics any “greener” than before RoHS? It is a fair question to ask. With the advent of RoHS on July 1, 2006, and more recently REACH, one might be inclined to answer that it is greener than it was. We will take a look at this question in several different ways, to discover the actual positive and negative effects of RoHS in both first world and developing countries.

  RoHS, lead-free, pb-free, electronics recycling

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  Posted on 14 Nov 2011

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