On 2014-12-17 Robert Dyck wrote:
I made some calls. None of them know how to deal with this. I called
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for hazardous waste. They Won't take it either. But when I phoned
Thanks Robert & Kevin! I'm puzzled by the lackadaisical attitude towards these things by the Thou Shalt Recycle Everything Powers That Be. The alarms say right on them not to throw them in the garbage.
(Also wondering why there isn't this info on the CoWinnipeg site which lists nearly everything else known to man.)
<rant to="no one in particular"> The alarms are mostly normal circuit-board with normal active & passive electronic parts. Minus the radioactive self-contained bit, the thing really should go to an e-waste place. So instead of treating the nasty radioactive bit as more deserving of diversion from the landfill, we compound the error by saying the normally-recycled PCB bits need to be landfilled too. Ironic.
So the mercury in CCFL's and the lead in pre-ROHS motherboards are too dangerous in the landfill but some Americium-241 is hunky dory? Drink that in your water supply! </rant>