A sad CRT article

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Originally Posted by Eric H

Uranium is also mined but I'm pretty sure if someone wanted to dump it in your water supply or backyard people would throw a fit.

Let's not stray from what's really being argued. Lead is a common element in just about all soil. Of all the things one might find in a landfill, lead encapsulated within a glass matrix (not ground into dust and digested with acid before measurement with a flame spectrophotometer) is probably one of the least worrisome materials you'll find.

Classifying CRTs as haz waste is a great money-maker for certain people. With the right test, you can separate the elements and justify the classification. We're all afraid of lead because we've seem the stories of kids eating a diet of lead paint chips... Thousands of times the expose one would receive from a lead pipe... Still quite common in municipal water systems. The hype is so intence, stores are afraid to sell used dishwasher because the might have an old copper/lead sweated fitting attached. Your odds of being beheaded are probably higher than health risks from used dishwashers, but which issue has already been addressed? Lobby groups, err I mean Governments, have their priorities!