Brian:
What a fascinating note. You've certainly put things in perspective. May
I ask in what country you live?
Jim Smith
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Brian Ellis wrote:
>
> Today is the start of the "hunting" season in this little island.
> According to the newspapers, there will be 50,000 so-called "sportsmen"
> in the hills, each using an average of 25 cartridges with 20 g of lead
> shot (yes, it is still used). They take pot shots at anything that they
> think that moves, whether suitable for the pot or not (occasionally at
> each other, as well, but perhaps not frequently enough). This makes me
> thing we are talking about 25,000 kg of finely divided, easily oxidised,
> lead particles scattered indiscriminately over the whole countryside,
> just in one day. If we take the 24 official days when hunting is
> permitted plus all the poaching that occurs, we are therefore talking
> about 500 to 1000 tonnes of lead.
>
> There is virtually no electronics industry in this country, so nearly
> all the tin/lead alloy imported is in finished products plus the odd
> reels of solder used by TV repair workshops. With a total population of
> about 500,000 in the free part of the country, the finished products
> will be essentially TV sets, computers and (above all) cellphones (we
> have proportionally the highest density of cellphones in the world,
> according to the newspapers). How much solder will there be in the
> 50,000 TVs, 75,000 PCs/monitors and 150,000 cellphones imported per
> year? 1 tonne or maybe 2 tonnes, 40% of which is lead: less than
> 1/1000th the amount of lead scattered about by hunters.
>
> Where is our sense of proportion?
>
> Brian
>
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