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Originally Posted by andy
I would think the biggest source of lead in an old TV was in the solder. That would certainly corrode in a landfill.
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It's also bizarre to me that this wasn't the chosen course for pursuing a haz-waste classification because you don't have to go through the mineral-extraction process used to classify CRT's.
Again, questioning motivations... It may have been that policing the actual scrappage of something as easily disposed of as a circuit board is hard to do. Imagine just having to show your TV's curcuit boards are gone, then you can throw the CRT/cabinet in a dumpster. That's seriously going to cut into the revenue of the haz waste disposers (probably located in NJ). A similar parallel might be requiring scrappers to present "freon removal certifications" for fridges and A/C units. Do you think these items ever arrive in a shape recognizable as an appliance? The fridges are just empty shells and the condenser/evaporator just get shoved in with the old bedspings and aluminum siding.