Re: Domestic smoke detector disposal in Australia

["Jetty" <jmiddelkoop@ZONNET.NL>]

Hello Radsafers,



With regards to the Netherlands, the situation used to be largely comparable

to Australia and the UK.



However, in building legislation the use of smoke detectors has become

obligatory in new houses.



As a result the amount of smoke detectors (most of them being the ionisation

type, this being the cheapest type) has risen enormously these last years.

This has led to an evaluation of the situation with regard to disposal, as

you may expect large numbers of waste detectors within the next decade.

There are more and more good alternatives for ionisation smoke detectors on

the market. Therefore the selling of ionisation smoke detectors will be

forbidden in 2005. I believe that in Switserland their use has already been

forbidden for some years.



Jetty Middelkoop

Fire department of Amsterdam







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