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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default EPA nuttiness to insanity was Visit to a scrap yard


pyotr filipivich wrote:

Why is it that TV and Computers are consider hazardous waste
because of the lead in the glass? Is that going to magically leech
out of the glass?



The method the EPA used to calculate the amount of lead in a CRT is
faulty.


It is the old bit about 80/20 - eighty percent of the project
takes up eighty percent of the budget, the other twenty percent takes
up the remaining eighty percent.



Umm, 80%+80%=160%


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