News: New law in germany forces electronic mfgs to recycle all of their products

[saaya]

http://portale.web.de/Schlagzeilen/Umwelt/

heres a googled translation
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fportale.web.de%2FSchlagze ilen%2FUmwelt%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

this means higher prices for all electronics parts since they are expensive to recycle. really lame since hardware is already a lot more expensive in europe than elsewhere, but its good to see its getting recycled afterwards and not shipped to some african yunkyard polluting the drinking water or anything :)

a similar law for car manufacturers passed some years ago that they have to recycle all parts of their cars, and it hasnt really increased prices a lot... so i hope this law wont increase prices too much either.

[saaya]

well in germany its relatively cheap compared to the rest of europe, but its still very expensive compared to the us! :P

[Frisch]

well in germany its relatively cheap compared to the rest of europe, but its still very expensive compared to the us! :P

An example from Denmark.

A sony 23 screen
In Danish Kr.
In denmark it'll cost you 14000, in US it's 8500.
That's 5500 Danish Kr. cheaper in US, WOOOOT.

[bxa121]

look at the bright side..
you want a car? go to the dealers who have to "dispose " of the car and offer him peanuts.. eg 1 euro.
and tell him hes better off giving the car to you for one euro than to "dispose" of the car and so costing him ..i dunno a lot more than a single euro.

same applies to computer parts as sayya is saying.. cheap second hand stuff.
bust a capacitor? or need any spare.. just go to a comp store and buy one they gotta get rid of for peanuts..

the philosophy: always see the advantage even in the face of adversity.