Lead Recycling

Lead Recycling - Lead is becoming less used because of its harmfulness to our environment. Lead has been banned in products like paint, water pipes and even gasoline. Although concerns of lead are continually growing it is still a very useful product and used in items such as solder, x-ray shields, wheel balance weights, car batteries and used in alloying. Fishing weights are also a popular item but there have been lawmakers that want to ban this product - believing this is contaminating water and fish. Lead often holds little cash value but it is very important that lead products do not end up in landfills. Human health concern forced most state governments including federal have put regulation in place to protect contamination from this element. More info on lead dangers and where unknown hazards could be found CLICK HERE.

Common Lead products and recycling terms

Hard lead, soft lead, wheel weights, pewter (mostly black tin), 10/90 solder (10% tin), 30/70 solder (30% tin), 40/60 solder (40% tin), 50/50 solder (50% tin), 60/40 solder (60% tin and 63/37 solder (63% tin)