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Re: [OM] Re: Silver pollution

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Silver pollution
From: george <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:53:47 -0800
Tim;

Yeah, I gotta send my Kodachromes to New Jersey now! Where the laws are
easier? :>)

george

BTW, I wonder why the KC lab closed but so many fabs are still here? _
ooops, they're not are they? Most have gone to Taiwan and Singapore.

HI100@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> George,
>    geanders@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> << In the same article he (Galen Rowell) slammed Kodak for (paraphrasing from
> memory) "doing  nothing about environmental problems of silver-based
> photography >>
> 
> The Large local SF Bay Area Kodak lab (it used to process KII) closed down a
> few years back because they could not meet the very stringent local laws
> outlawing putting any heavy metals in the Bay. They had actually done a
> pretty good job of cleaning up their act but the local laws are very strict
> due to years of Silicon Valley companies dumping all sorts of gold ,silver
> and other metals into the Bay. There used to be a company here that had a
> contract to reprocess the sewage which actually had sufficient gold in it to
> be an economic business.
> 
> Tim Hughes
> Hi100@xxxxxxx
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