What is the source for the statistics?
Couple of comments:
1) Batteries are 100% recycled (at least in the U.S.)
2) Lead is being removed from ammunition in the U.S.
There is still a large percentage of lead usage unaccounted for in your
statistics. Another large source is CRT tubes - like batteries, no
option known, but they, too, are starting to be recycled.
By the way, when I lived in Vermont the farmers used a lot of white
paint during hunting season. It takes a lot of white paint to put "COW"
in big letters on both sides of Vermont's 3,000,000 live-stock ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Schmidt, Wolf-Dieter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 3:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [LF] AW: [LF] OT Proportions
Hallo to all,
just a few days ago I've got a statistic on lead consumtion worldwide -
let
me give you some numbers out of it:
80.81 % storage batteries (have look into your car !)
4.69 % ammunition
1.40 % cable covering
0.49 % electronic solder
By the way: I've made up a short calculation which shows: the lead
quantity
within one car battery is the same as on ~ 30,000 square meters of
printed
boards.
This needs no further comment - or does it ?
Best regards
Wolf-Dieter Schmidt
(Product-Engineer)
SEL Defense Systems
PO-Box 1760
D-75117 Pforzheim
Tel.: +49 7231 15 3386
Fax: +49 7231 15 3390
eMail: [log in to unmask]
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Brian Ellis [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Gesendet am: Sonntag, 12. November 2000 10:35
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: [LF] OT Proportions
>
> 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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