Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] SL battery help
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:35:48 -0000

Marc,
Thanks for this clarification, I shall amend my notes accordingly.

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]

At 05:06 PM 3/8/2001 -0000, Jem Kime wrote:
>
>Mercury PX625 PX13- 1.35 V are no longer allowed to be produced in the US 
>or Europe. Those were the only countries with plants outside Asia. The last 
>plant producing mercury cells was Varta in Ellwangen Germany. They were 
>ceasing production in December 1999. The only place where their might still 
>be production is China, but no-one there can find anything out about such 
>production.

Production of mercury batteries has not been "outlawed" in the US.  The
Environmental Pollution Agency issued a regulation that manufacturers had
to ensure that such batteries, though, did not entire the trash stream.
Alternatives suggested included a "deposit and return" system (that is, for
instance, an initial purchase of a battery might be $15 or so, with $5
being a deposit.  Subsequent purchses would be at market price, but would
require you to turn in one battery to be allowed to buy another.)  The
manufacturers declined to make such an arrangement and simply ceased
production.

Mercury batteries are still in production in the former Soviet Union.

Marc

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