Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shel Belinkoff wrote: From the Leica List. Thought it might be of some interest here, too. see http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/mf/film.html#epa the claims that we will "always" have film and paper seems to run counter to the desire of the US govt/greens/epa to ban silver pollution sources... - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wouldn't worry too much about silver being banned. The big reason is that hospital radiology departments are ABSOLUTELY dependent on silver films for X-rays. There are no inexpensive alternatives to film usage in hospitals. Here in Canada, we are required to have a silver recovery unit for automatic film processors. It's not a bad idea to have one of these for yourself if you do a lot of silver stuff...after all anything you send down the sink will end up in your own drinking water . Alternatively, you could send used fixer to your municpiality's hazardous waste disposal (it's probably free!), along with your old paint and used motor oil. Jonathan Lee