The EPA and lead wheel-weights. I want your two cents!

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Originally posted by 1911Tuner.
I regularly mine used bullets from the berms and the fragments of same from around the steel target bays at my range...in order to *ahem* be a responsible and *cough* conscientious recycler.
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Let me be the first to give ya a big Atta Boy on that Tuner!:D

Joe
 
I discussed this recently with a pediatrician friend and she said she is required to test all(?) kids for lead exposure and has never seen a case of elevated lead exposure. I'm not sure when and how frequently the tests were done but she indicated that it is "not a problem" and that the tests probably weren't necessary.
 
About 10 years ago I took apart a few car batteries to back yard blast furnace the lead sulfate and led oxide plates back to metalic lead. It worked I got about 20 to 30lb of metal from each battery.
The air pollution was real bad, we will just leave it at that.
 
748...Don't use any more car batteries for bullet making. The plates and posts contain cadmium. The dross from cadmium-containing lead produces toxic vapors if allowed to get wet. Among the nice little surprises is pulmonary embolism within hours of exposure.

Nasty stuff, cadmium...
 
I only did it once, stayed up wind. I knew there was sulfur dioxide, maybe Mecurey, lead vapors for sure, maybe cadmium.
It was nasty.
At least 95% of the lead I have came just from bullets and tire weights.
 
Ah yes, strontium! It's in your teeth, actually...if you were born after the atmospheric nuclear test shots of the '50s and '60s. They can even pin down your age to within a few years based on the leels of this and other radioactive isotopes in your teeth.
 
It was an EPA proposal, aired quite some time ago.

What do you plan to do when lead wheel weights become a thing of the past?
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And the EPA has since balked on the petition wishing to ban automotive wheelweight usage, stating that there wasn't enough evidence to support the claim that 1,600 tons of lead-based wheelweights are deposited and subsequently ground up on American roadways each year.

I'd be more concerned about the amount of lead deposited into the countryside by rifle, handgun, and shotgun rounds, honestly.

That's already a major concern, and I've witnessed EPA action costing one range a lot of money in mining their berms and putting clay liners under the new ones.

I've also witnessed a very prominent skeet and rifle range at Kennedy Space Center get completely shut down due to lead contamination of the facility grounds.

I'd wager there's more than 1,600 tons of lead being deposited by shooters every year, and if the same environmental groups concerned about wheelweights flying off of car and truck rims ever figure that out... :(
 
OMG What in heavens name are we ever going to do with all the Civil war battle fields. Gettysburg should deffintly be shut down to all visitors before they drag all that contamination all over the east coast. How are we ever going to make it thru life with all this poison affecting us.

Maybe this is why the financial markets and the economy is tanking because of all the lead contamination affecting the minds of our corporate leaders.

I see no hope for the future, so place heads between legs and kiss it all goodby.
 
It was an EPA proposal, aired quite some time ago.
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This link says December 30, 2008.

None of the EPA people who've responded to my emails have said anything about this initiative being dead, either, so this thing is still going as of five days ago.
 
the E.P.A. will make mount mckinley out of that wheel weight. i know their job is important, but i cant help wonder why they pick on the little stuff, and continually let big business dump toxins into the air and water every day with only a small fine to pay. if they want to do something, fine the heck out of the businesses that do harm and save us! if a business has to pay $50.000 dollars a day to polute, and it would cost them $75.000 a day to fix their problem, nothing will get done, except to pass the costs on to the consumer. if it cost them $100,000 a day for fines, and the same $75,000 a day to fix it, it will get fixed!
 
I didn't read much of the article or many of the posts. I work at a warehouse with electric forklifts, which means massive 2-3 thousand pound lead batteries.

We hired a new guy a few years back to repair the batteries, his previous job was working for the gov cleaning up a nuclear site.
He called the E.P.A on us about all the lead laying on the ground, going down the drain and dust from taking a wire wheel to the terminals.

E.P.A came said every thing is O.K. and left. I don't think it is a major concern for them.
 
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