Yeah, Illinois is one of them. I work for a shop but we maybe do 20 tires max per month, I'll see lead weights a couple times a year. Not even worth saving. I have a roofer that drops off some pure lead roofing materials every couple months. Scrap guys aren't allowed to sell lead they pick up around here either so you just have to know someone to get any.This ratio keeps getting worse over time. In some states you will get almost no usable lead.
This remove antimony & copper.melt all of it down below zinc’s melting point
Same here. Half to 3/4 MAXMy grandson works at shop that does tires. He brings me a half full 5-gal. bucket every week or so. So far I have a little over 100 lbs. of ww ingots. Nearly full 5-gal. bucket of steel, including the clips from lead ww. And a 1-gal. can of zinc weights. So I'd say a little over half the haul is lead.