Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc: Here in Michigan we have a beverage bottle law that was passed many years ago. The store owners and bottlers didn't like it, but they didn't stop selling beverages. I suspect that the storage problems and inconvieniece caused by dirty empty bottles and the storing thereof is much less that would be caused by a few batteries. Even if SOME retailers refused to sell them, others would sell them. Cheers! kw >Go to your nearest full-service camera store. Speak with the OWNER or >GENERAL MANAGER. Ask him or her whether they would have wanted to >participate in an exchange system. (That is, a system where there was say, >a $10 deposit on each mercury battery and you weren't allowed to buy one >without turning one in.) > >As the owners of my local store said, 'We pay our employees to sell things, >not to protect the environment." Besides, by killing mercury batteries, >the sale of new cameras and accessories was INCREASED, a neat piece of >planned obsolescence. > >Marc > > >Marc James Small >Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir! >FAX: +540/343-7315 - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@umcc.umich.edu> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org>