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The lead on those old CRTs never hurt anybody, unless they ingest it. Yea, kids sometimes eat contaminated dirt, and get lead poisoning, (and most of that was from factory's that used lead). but short of that, most all the CRTs buried deep in landfills don't cause anybody any problems. Worse is when they ship them to 3rd world countries to dispose of them, burning the sets and monitors containing all kinds of plastic chemicals, and most likely people are rummaging through the remains trying to reclaim copper, and other metals, among the leaded glass. Gosh when I was a kid, our main water line to the house was made of lead, and us kids never had any problems with lead poisoning. I'm still reasonably healthy for my age, lead or no lead. I think there still is a lot of older houses using lead piping, and somehow that seems more likely to cause lead poisoning than a buried CRTs. The environmentalists have gone way too far.
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