On Thursday 09 March 2023 11:26:10 am Sam Reaves wrote:

Think about how much lead is in a car battery. I would bet that the number
of those in landfills far exceed the amount of lead used in solder.

You would lose that bet. Car batteries are among the most recycled products out there, with both the lead and the plastic cases being recycled, as well as any electrolyte that may remain in them. I don't recall the exact number but it was in excess of 90%.

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Given the weight of lead in a car battery... about
30 to 50lbs, and the weight of the lead in the tiny
amount of solder in a 1970's TV, you would to have a
forest of TV's dumped in a landfill before you equaled
the lead in one single car battery improperly disposed.

Out in the country, I see car batteries all over the place.
Many have degraded so much as to become almost become
invisible. They don't all get recycled.

LBJ once said,
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits
it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of
the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if
improperly administered."


RoHs is one of those laws LBJ was talking about.

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On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 11:38:06 -0500 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr."
<roy@...> wrote:

On Thursday 09 March 2023 11:26:10 am Sam Reaves wrote:

Think about how much lead is in a car battery. I would bet that the
number of those in landfills far exceed the amount of lead used in
solder.

You would lose that bet. Car batteries are among the most recycled
products out there, with both the lead and the plastic cases being
recycled, as well as any electrolyte that may remain in them. I
don't recall the exact number but it was in excess of 90%.