Well, Khurt!

I read and liked your response. It took some integrity for you to post my reply and your response and I appreciate it. I hope your readers understand this. The web is full stuff...some good and some just angry, fast crap. Human beings with standards are becoming a rare commodity especially on the Internet. I'm now quite grateful for this exchange and, for my part, I apologize for being rude to you in an email message BEFORE I read your post...so sorry, Khurt.

The point you make about companies separating people from their cash is valid, but they can still do two things: make less toxic products and make their products more amenable to recycling once they die.

Actually, this saves them a lot of money. Caterpillar, Xerox, BMW and others now save up to 70% of their production costs by 'remanufacturing' (basically recycling and reusing) components from
old, obsolete models. This is a remarkable economic advantage to going green... Trouble is not too many people know about it yet. Business Week wrote about it last September in a great article still available online here:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_39/b4002074.htm

Thanks again, Khurt.

Giles Slade