"Lead is an element. It isn't going away. You can burn it, you can stomp on it, you can bury it; it isn't going away. It's going to get back into the life cycle."
Ted Smith, Executive Director of SVTC, in"Poison PCs", Salon.com 9/18/2000
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| "If you landfill a CRT, it will get crushed in the process. The fine particles of glass laced with lead eventually degrade. With rainfall getting into the dump site, the water will become contaminated with lead, and that lead-filled water will leach out of the landfill and into the groundwater." "Lead is an element. It isn't going away. You can burn it, you can stomp on it, you can bury it; it isn't going away. It's going to get back into the life cycle." Ted Smith, Executive Director of SVTC, in"Poison PCs", Salon.com 9/18/2000 |
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