Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] environmental awareness
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:06:48 -0700 (PDT)

> Every time I hear numbers like this, I cringe.  Is somebody recycling
> the 99.9% of photographs that are not used?  What happens to all the
> rejects? Particularly when silver is involved.

Don't know about the unused photographs, but when I was in the
photofinishing business we used to collect the waste silver from the
exhausted chemistry and sell it to a metals recycler. There was a good
return in doing that. 

Godfrey