Digital Cameras Are Environmentally Friendly: As the digital camera revolution swept across the last decade the focus was on how the enhanced benefits were good for consumers. More photos can be taken at much lower cost.
As Mike Adams “the Health Ranger” writes.
But one thing many people don’t think about actually deserves mention as potentially the most profound effect of the digital camera revolution: how digital cameras greatly reduce the destructive impact on the environment compared to film cameras.
At first, you might think, “How can that be? My film camera didn’t harm the environment!” Even though it wasn’t your camera that harmed the environment, your film processing did indeed harm it. Any time you take your pictures to a photo processing center, that film is run through batches of chemicals. These chemicals are environmental hazards, and once they are used to process film, those chemicals must be discarded. These chemicals include both developer solutions and fixer solutions.
All film photo processing centers use these chemicals. The question is, what do they do with these chemicals after they use them? According to environmental protection standards, they have to dispose of these chemicals in an environmentally sound way. That can mean trapping them in absorbent materials designed to render the chemicals inert and then disposing of those materials in a landfill. But more often than not, because of the increased expense involved in such endeavors, many film processing companies just pour the chemicals down the drain.
Don’t believe me? Just ask anyone who has worked in a film processing company. While certainly the bigger and better known companies probably adhere to the environmental laws, many of the smaller, locally-owned companies don’t. As an experiment, one day I went to a local film processing company and asked what they did with their chemicals after they were done using them. The answer? “We pour them down the drain!” And that means these chemicals enter the water supply and go downstream.
[Read the full article at newstarget]
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