jcwit
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So you're contaminating you garden with lead & then eat the veggies?
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No wonder they want to outlaw the use of lead?
What's your method for disposal of used tumbling media?
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So you're contaminating you garden with lead & then eat the veggies?
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No wonder they want to outlaw the use of lead?
JohnM
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I've never really tossed any.
Once in a great while go out if there's a good breeze and pour it between a couple buckets to let the fines and dust blow away, then top up with new and go again.
Once in a great while go out if there's a good breeze and pour it between a couple buckets to let the fines and dust blow away, then top up with new and go again.
AK_Maine_iac
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Okay, i only reload maybe 300 rounds per year. Don't think i have enough lead contaminants to worry about. I would sooner worry about what is in the water table from all of the gold mines in the area, Arsenic etc. God knows what kind of run off we get from the local industry, Military Bases, oil refineries all located within six miles of my garden.
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"I would sooner worry about what is in the water table from all of the gold mines in the area, Arsenic etc. God knows what kind of run off we get from the local industry, Military Bases, oil refineries all located within six miles of my garden. "
Now THAT may be a hazard in your garden, tiny traces lead from tumbling media is not. I mean, after all guys, the stuff comes out of the ground to start with and no one has ever died from garden fed lead poisoning! (Thats funny, don't care who ya are!)
Now THAT may be a hazard in your garden, tiny traces lead from tumbling media is not. I mean, after all guys, the stuff comes out of the ground to start with and no one has ever died from garden fed lead poisoning! (Thats funny, don't care who ya are!)
jcwit
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So the solution is to just add more contaminates to be ingested?
Man alive this sure makes sense.
As I said, no wonder they want to outlaw the use of lead.
Guys, your logic is appalling to say the least.
Man alive this sure makes sense.
As I said, no wonder they want to outlaw the use of lead.
Guys, your logic is appalling to say the least.
Yes the reasoning behind "someone else is polluting a lot more than I do so me polluting a little must be perfectly ok" is far from sound, in fact it is basically using "Some big kids were doing it!" as an excuse. BUT at the same time one has to consider what one is legally obliged to do, what is REALLY the best thing to do with it, etc.
Spreading it on your own yard may actually be the best way to deal with the contaminants at the level they are at / at the regularity you will need to dispose of them. Perhaps everyone stockpiling theirs at the same place by disposing in the garbage is worse, and perhaps using a hazardous waste disposal facility is overkill. Those happen to be my opinion on the subject regarding used tumbling media. Using it as flux sounds like a good one, if you cast.
I'm far from "pro-polluting" but at the same time I don't believe that returning minerals to the earth that they came from is polluting (considering the compound and amount / density). When lead or other materials are mined from the earth they are certainly in significant densities, otherwise it wouldn't be worthwhile mining them, so returning them to the earth isn't nearly as polluting as one might think, though it certainly isn't good enough reason to blindly do it.
Spreading it on your own yard may actually be the best way to deal with the contaminants at the level they are at / at the regularity you will need to dispose of them. Perhaps everyone stockpiling theirs at the same place by disposing in the garbage is worse, and perhaps using a hazardous waste disposal facility is overkill. Those happen to be my opinion on the subject regarding used tumbling media. Using it as flux sounds like a good one, if you cast.
I'm far from "pro-polluting" but at the same time I don't believe that returning minerals to the earth that they came from is polluting (considering the compound and amount / density). When lead or other materials are mined from the earth they are certainly in significant densities, otherwise it wouldn't be worthwhile mining them, so returning them to the earth isn't nearly as polluting as one might think, though it certainly isn't good enough reason to blindly do it.
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Well, I contact the local Hazmat Team and get an approved container from them to put the used media in. Then I being it to a company that has a portable blast furnace so it can be totally destroyed and not contaminate the landfill. This company usually uses their machine to sterilize soil that has been contaminated with oil, fuel or other hydrocarbons to make it safe again.
Actually, NOT...
I just wrap it in a plastic bag and throw it in the trash like in a lot of the posts above... 
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Actually, NOT...
I just wrap it in a plastic bag and throw it in the trash like in a lot of the posts above... .
weeniewawa
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I throw it in the garbage
that's why I pay the city each month to take away the stuff I no longer need
this would be very tame compared to the other stuff that goes in the can
if I can cut it up or stuff it in there, it goes in the trash truck
that's why I pay the city each month to take away the stuff I no longer need
this would be very tame compared to the other stuff that goes in the can
if I can cut it up or stuff it in there, it goes in the trash truck
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Guys, your logic is appalling to say the least.
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RustyFN
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Do you shoot lead bullets outside?
jaysouth
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Just as long as you don't let empty beer can blow out.
Lead is toxic!
After I enter the vacuum chamber and slip on my Hazmat suit I activate the lead sensor alarms. I then load the sealed disposal drum in my vehicle and drive it down to the disposal center. Michelle loves this idea.
I used to take down to the orphanage where I sprinkled it on the ice cream for the kids. They loved it! Then I saw a photograph of polar bears that was really sad and went green.
After I enter the vacuum chamber and slip on my Hazmat suit I activate the lead sensor alarms. I then load the sealed disposal drum in my vehicle and drive it down to the disposal center. Michelle loves this idea.
I used to take down to the orphanage where I sprinkled it on the ice cream for the kids. They loved it! Then I saw a photograph of polar bears that was really sad and went green.
jcwit
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Yes I do, and I belong to a club that the state requires us to have our well water and surface water to be tested every quarter.
With that said there is a HUGE difference between elemental lead, thats lead in the "metal" state versus lead compounds as is found in used tumbling media.
This is why those that shoot at indoor ranges are more at risk, depending of the air system, and why the dust from media is a problem.
Common sense should be used and adhered to.
Think about it rusty, think!
FROGO207
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I do put it in the trash-----BUT. The trash here is shipped to a trash to energy plant that is basically a LARGE incinerator that heats water to power several steam turbines. The smoke stacks have electronic particle scrubbers that remove the bad stuff from the byproducts. This is IMHO a safe and sane way to remove mildly toxic waste from the environment. How many other things like batteries and Teflon and such are thrown away each year in landfills. IMHO that is worse than what we do. The dross from melting lead does go to the haz-mat clean up that they have around here once a year however.
jaysouth
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I don't let dust accumulate in my tumbler. I put a clean 'bounce' dryer sheet in with each new load of brass.
It goes in the trash after each tumbling session. So if it is wrong, I am doing it in small doses. However, I have lived long enough to respect proportionality. The hundred or so pounds of tumbler media that winds up in the landfill of my town is not a statistical blip on the radar screen compared to the disposal of lithium batteries, dead computers and computer screens, old florescent bulbs and the new CFLs.
You have only so much 'fire in the belly'. Save it for the big battles and things that really matter.
It goes in the trash after each tumbling session. So if it is wrong, I am doing it in small doses. However, I have lived long enough to respect proportionality. The hundred or so pounds of tumbler media that winds up in the landfill of my town is not a statistical blip on the radar screen compared to the disposal of lithium batteries, dead computers and computer screens, old florescent bulbs and the new CFLs.
You have only so much 'fire in the belly'. Save it for the big battles and things that really matter.
thorn-
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Just don't blend it into a corn smoothie.
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