EU Proposing Mandatory Battery Recycling

Ironsides writes "The BBC Reports that the European Union is working on a directive to mandate battery recycling. Among other things, it will ban more than trace amounts of cadmium and mercury and require all batteries to be removeable. If it passes, it will be interesting to see how this affects such devices as MP3 players that generally do not have removeable rechargeable batteries."

OMG!

[NeMon'ess]

Then there will be a seam on the back of iPods where the battery meets the casing and nobody will buy them anymore because they're so ugly!!!!

What about lemons?

[Killshot]

Will they recycle lemon batteries [hilaroad.com]?

Removable?

[cgenman]

Any battery is removable [blotorches.com].

Re:OMG!

[Anonymous Coward]

And that's exactly how it should be, and that's why Apple gets it and Slashdotters don't.

What are you babbling about. Slasdhot is the biggest collection of irrational Apple fan boys in the known Universe. Just look at your absurd pro-Apple post and how it was rated "insightful", despite it being utterly moronic.

Re:Unintended consequences

[Fred_A]

I suppose people in the US would do it because recycling has been government imposed.
Remember :
government = bad
market = good

From a market point of view, tossing cell phones in a river is sound economics. It creates demand for more cell phones and no charges for recycling the nasty bits. For consumers without a river nearby, just toss it out the window.

Of course some poor sod (or critter) might get intoxicated by the crap in the cellphone as it dissolves away, but that's life for you. If he had been brighter, ha would have sold phones, made a fortune and bought a clean island somewhere instead of living in a pulluted wasteland. I guess some people just don't get it.

Potato Batteries

[Kadin2048]

Sure, just take it down to your local recycling center [mcdonalds.com] and they'll take care of it.

Re:OMG!

[Nefarious Wheel]

Why not just reclassify and sell the iPod as a good looking battery with a few extra marketing features, such as the ability to play music?