Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:28 PM 5/8/98 -0500, Bud Cook wrote: >A >salesman at National Camera told me that they were only banned in states >that had incinerators but I think they are banned nationally. Again and again and again. Mercury batteries are not, per se, banned; their DISPOSAL is banned. Hence, by convoluted logic, they won't sell 'em, as you cannot put them into a landfill, though you CAN put into a landfill a burned out flourescent light tube with 10 times the mercury. You figure it out. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!