** The local council has leafleted everyone about an upcoming  "Residential 
Electronics Waste Collection Day".

There is a long list of things that are acceptable:

Televisions, Desktop Computers, Laptops, Hard Drives and other parts, 
Monitors, Computer Mouse, Keyboards, Printers, Photocopiers, Scanners, Fax 
machines, Mobile phones, Telephones, Digital and film cameras, DVD and Video 
players, Gaming Consoles and associated equipment, Stereo Systems, Speakers, 
Power Tools,  Microwaves, Toasters, Irons, Kettles and other Household 
Electrical Appliances, Hair Dryers, Vacuum Cleaners.

Fridges, washers and air cons are excluded as are smoke alarms

Hard drives will be shredded, it says.

Prevention of toxic substances like lead, cadmium and mercury getting into 
the soil and groundwater is the stated reason for the collection.

But nary a single word about CFLs .....

Need I explain that the Green Party dominates the local council ?



....  Phil