Sierra Lyricalia wrote:"Christ on a bicycle, does anyone read these things, ever?!? At no point does it say you have to tank your economy to stop using these metals; all you have to do is keep them from getting into your ecosystem and your workers' bodies, and do research so you can phase them out when it's economically feasible to do so.
Yes, we read them--and we imagine how drastically different life would be if we tried to comply. In our nation, workers get paid EVERY DAY in the form of silver and gold, so it would tank our economy to keep these metals out of worker's hands.
Yes, we read them--and there's no list of heavy metals and no exemption for monetary use or an exemption of gold and silver.
What's the next step here, I wonder? To declare our National Treasury an international biohazard site, cordon it off and have the WA come in and "clean up" all our gold and silver reserves?