Your Address
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21 June 2012
Tesco Customer Services
Baird Avenue
FREEPOST SCO3145
DUNDEE, Tayside
Alba
DD1 1YP
Dear Sirs
I enclose a smoke alarm that I brought from you several years ago. It has stopped working & I want you to dispose of it safely.
It contains the artificially produced radioisotope: Americium-241; a radioactive waste that has a half-life of 450 years.
Why do you sell products that contain a radioactive waste product from decaying Plutonium-241?
( Plutonium-241 comes from the inside of Nuclear plants. )
The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recommends that all radioactive smoke detectors are returned to the supplier for disposal and not disposed of with normal household refuse.
One of the conditions of the licence to sell smoke detectors in Australia is that the company must accept unwanted detectors for disposal.
Why do you not have a collection point for dead smoke alarms, so that people can give them back to you, rather than pollute household waste sites with radioactive waste? Surely we ( people, governments, corporations ) should be collecting radioactive waste, so that we know where it is, can catalogue what it is & can monitor it; rather than dispersing it around every nook & cranny in this once green & pleasant land?
I leave you to Safely dispose of the Hazardous Waste that you sold me.
Yours sincerely
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