A European Commission move to ban hazardous metallic waste from electric equipment has met with unexpected resistance, with music-loving MEPs claiming the ban may put an end to church music as they know it.
Two directives from 2002, soon to be enforced, restrict hazardous substances and waste from electrical and electronic equipment, and aim to put an end to the growing level of heavy metals in the European landscape.
As a consequence, the making of traditional pipe organs for c...
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