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by bitwize
2258 days ago
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Lead leeching into the soil and water supply is a very, very bad thing. Eventually, even long-lasting electronics must be disposed of, and if it contains significant quantities of lead, it poses a risk of poisoning the environment. Those "EU bureaucrats" are protecting their children, and by extension yours through a sort of regulatory herd immunity, from lead toxicity. |
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Yeah, right. Where are the numbers? If lead "leeches" out of solder and into the water table, it happens in microscopic quantities on geologic timescales.
Getting lead out of gasoline made sense. Solder and plating, no. At less than 0.66 grams of solder based on tin content alone [1], one iPhone built with 63/37 eutectic lead solder would contain less lead than about 20,000 car batteries. Last I checked, we're still poisoning your children with those.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/433wyq/everything-thats-i...