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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 08:28:09 -0700
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On 8/7/2024 5:49 AM, Chris Buckley wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.sf.written.]
> On 2024-08-06, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>> On 2024-08-06, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> However, LEDs have the advantage over LCDs of being disposable in the
>>> landfill (ie, put in the trash as opposed to having to be dropped off
>>> at special locations) when they stop working. Well, if that /is/ an
>>> advantage, of course. And both have the advantage over incandescents
>>> that they work a lot longer.
>>
>> LED lights are electronics and are collected along with other
>> electronics for recycling.  At least in Europe.
>>
>> Actually, according to the signage at the local station for bulk
>> waste, recycling, etc., LED tubes go into the same container as
>> fluorescents.  Which seems odd.
> 
> It sounds like things are changing here (near DC). LED bulbs were
> collected for recycling for many years along with the fluorescents,
> but that's not the case anymore. They may still be considered mild
> hazardous waste (the website is inconsistent now) but not recyclable.
> Ordinary trash may be fine.
> 
> Strings of LED Christmas lights are still recycled, but I assume that's
> for the wire rather than the bulbs.
> 
Actual recycling turns out to be a lot more finicky than we were lead to 
believe.  "Just recycle your plastic!"  Which kind of plastic?  There 
are a few hundred different types and a lot of them simply CAN'T be 
recycled economically, if at all.  Separating metals costs and so on.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.