"Mike" wrote in message
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On 04 Apr 2008 03:42:35 GMT, Jay Ts
wrote:

Another source of lead is CRTs, many of which are still in use.
They contain about 5 pounds of lead each for radiation protection,
quite a bit more than is contained in the solder in the PC boards.

And the replacements, flat screen monitors, have mercury in
the fluorescent backlights.

If you've ever seen the size of a fluorescent backlight for an LCD
you'd realise that scrapping even a few hundred of them produces three
fifths of seven sixteenths of bugger all mercury.


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Which is, in turn, about the same level of threat to the environment, as
lead in solder ... d;~}

Arfa