So let’s say you used to sell shoelaces to a shoe company. They told you just exactly how they wanted the laces made including out of a very strong material and very long. Many years later, as your company continues to make shoelaces, the fact surfaces that those laces you sold to the now defunct shoe company are the perfect length and strength for committing suicide. Now, loved-ones of people who have committed suicide are upset that someone could make a shoelace so perfect for committing suicide. You just made them how they were ordered and had no clue of the harmful nature of the laces but now you are being sued.

Does this scenario make sense to you? Yet it is eerily similar to a government lawsuit being brought against some scrap recycling companies that sold mercury to the Port Refinery many years ago. The Port Refinery was closed so now let’s sue those who sold the substance even though they sold it completely legally. What’s next? Is somebody going to sue the descendants of George Washington because they missed out on cherries that could have grown had he not chopped down the legendary cherry tree?

But such is the way with our runaway government. They seem bound and determined to squeeze out any possible cent from US businesses, even if it costs them more to do so than what they collect. Do you want to know why more companies are not finding ways to recycle electronics? Nobody wants to pay the price years from now when somebody determines the process used was in some way dangerous. So now companies send the electronics overseas – which might also get you into trouble.