Rob Morley wrote:
Lead dissolves in acid rain and is washed into water courses, where
it kills things and can find its way back to us.

IIRC, the big problem at this time is not really lead in pcbs, but lead
in the glass of CRTs (to stop X rays) in landfill. I seem to remember a
figure of 250K tons/yr of lead being dumped from this source for the
USA, so I guess we'll have about the same amount across Europe.

Regards
Capitol