[sllug-members]: Electronics recycling

Chad Lake clake at cs.utah.edu
Wed Jun 14 10:27:46 MDT 2006


On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Roberto Mello wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:09:50PM -0600, Kurt Mahan wrote:
>> A question about electronics recycling.
>>
>> What is the proper way to dispose of smoke detectors that contain
>> radioactive material?
>
> Whoa! Radioactive materials?!? I'm curious why smoke detectors have  
> them.
> Do you know?

So boy scouts would have something fun to play with.

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html



					-c



ps- seriously though, you can read about it at http://www.uic.com.au/ 
nip35.htm


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