2009/5/28 Frank Peelo <f26p at eircom.net>:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> On Thursday 28 May 2009 08:41:30 Josh Glover wrote:
>>>>> 2009/5/26 Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie>:
>>>>>>> I'm presuming the impact of rechargeable[s]
>>>> is less than the impact of all the non-rechargeables.
>>>>>> I hope this is true, as I labour under the same presumption. :)
>>> Has anyone pointers to research on this topic?
>>>> [C]ommon sense seems to me to suggest you are wrong.
>> Suppose a rechargeable battery can be re-charged 100 times
>> and holds 1/2 the charge of a non-rechargeable.
>> Then you would be saying that for some reason
>> 50 non-rechargable batteries require less re-cycling
>> than 1 rechargeable.
>> As I read it, they seem to be saying the opposite - that the environmental
> impact of the rechargeable "is less than the impact of all the
> non-rechargeables".
That's what I thought Brian was saying as well, and my editing (above)
seems to support that fact. Once I removed all the supporting clauses
and qualifiers, his sentence is quite clear.
Common sense would dictate that recyclables have less of an
environmental impact, but common sense is sometimes, er, a little too
common. ;)
--
Cheers,
Josh
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