's plastic additives division, which brought on some phosphate-based flame retardants to diversify away from bromine.

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Great Lakes produces bromine-based flame retardants for plastic resins, polymer additives, fine chemicals for drug production and swimming pool chemicals.

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European customers want to replace tetrabrom with nonhalogenated, or more ozone-layer-friendly, flame retardants.

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Both the iMac and Mac mini include PVC-free components and cables, contain no brominated flame retardants, and use highly recyclable materials and material-efficient packaging designs.

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One-third of its sales come from bromine-based products, especially the flame retardants that keep DVD players from catching fire.

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American industry and government had also expressed concern that the recycling requirements would put non-EU based producers at a disadvantage, and that the substance ban particularly as regards flame retardants could lower the safety of such products.

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First, electronic waste is currently hazardous waste in that it contains lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants etc, which are integrally mixed into components and cannot therefore be easily separated from the non-hazardous components.

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