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AIUI, 99.9% of the lead in consumer electronics was in CRTs.
Isn't there something like a couple of pounds of the stuff in
there? Now that we've switched to LCDs, that problem has gone
away. The amount of lead in a circuit board is practically negligible.


Not when you have tens of thousands of circuit boards rotting in a landfill.