WE KEEP UPDATING OUR APPLIANCES BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUFF WE PUT IN THE BIN???
Every day I see old TUBE TV's and other electronic items on the side of the road and that's just in my own neighbourhood!
It's up to us the consumers to put on the pressure . Manufactures and consumers alike need to be conscious of the fact that we are just throwing old technology with reusable and toxic parts into a hole in the ground. Yes that's right all that usefull and toxic material is being buried. TV's for example are loaded with copper, lead , mercury ,plastic and precious metals. So think twice about that hard garbage collection that happens twice a year,it all goes into a hole in the ground and it doesn't go away.
Out of the Trilloins of dollars that are made by electronics manufactures you could say that almost none of that money made goes into taking back the old stuff and reusing the recycleable parts.
I've done a little investigating and there are 2 places that I know in SYDNEY that do recycle your old TV gear and electronics like computers and mobile phones.
I have also contacted my local council RANDWICK and apparently there is a once a year pickup that is not a part of the hard rubbish clean up. There are plans to set up a place so you can take your old electronics for recycling but that may never happen. We the ratepayers and enviromentally conscious must put pressure on councils and local Government to make it possble.
Cannon may be looking to bringout its SED technology on it's own not as a TV but as a professinal monitor
An interesting report concerning SED TV technology has come out of the NAB 2009 show last week. It seems that SED may come out as a professional monitor product, similar to what FET was planning with FED TV. Here’s Peter Putman’s take on it:
“I was asked on more than one occasion about the chances of Canon’s SED making a comeback, something I would not have bet money on after the Nano Technologies licensing debacle. However, a source within Canon told me at the show that the SED is still very much alive as a pro monitor technology. Indeed, a Canon SED engineer from Japan was quietly making the rounds in the Las Vegas Convention Center to scope out the competition.”
If SED is produced as a broadcast monitor there remains the possibility that a SED TV could be forthcoming when times are better."
