SCIENCE RESEARCH TEAM "DEAD WEIGHT" LEAD COMPOUND CONVERSIONS.

"If the public becomes more aware of the environmental dangers of
lead wheel weights and is given alternative wheel balancing choices then
there will be a decrease in lead entering the environment. It is
important that we make sure that the water we drink and the air we
breathe is free of lead." TEAM DEAD WEIGHT

The EPA estimates that 10% or approximately 2000 tons of wheel weights
fall off annually into the environment, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. 
USA Today, August 28, 2008.
"Acetic acid present in landfills is very corrosive in the 
presence of wheel weight lead and will convert wheel weight lead to 
highly toxic and water soluble lead acetate. 
Lead acetate exposed to carbon dioxide may potentially covert 
to toxic and water soluble lead carbonate. 
1 gram of lead has the potential to pollute over 66,000 
liters of water." eCybermission Team Dead Weight 
http://www.leadzero.org/PPM.PPB.definition.html 

Discarded and road deposited lead wheel weights can end up in a 
landfill or are exposed to acid rain, salt, sand, snow and landfill 
bacteria and will potentially form highly mobile toxic water soluble 
lead compounds, not limited to, but include lead nitrate 
(banned in all paints in 1968), lead acetate and lead hydroxide that are 
carried off by street water runoff. Toxic lead compounds can then be 
readily and unknowingly absorbed by every living creature and all 
plant life. Lead transmission through the food chain is inevitable. 
http://www.smartenergy4kids.org/images/dilute.vinegar.leadww.1-10.html


Science research team "Dead Weight" recognizes the 
need to protect the public from exposure to lead hazards. 
There are no federal regulatory controls governing use of lead 
wheel weights. Environmental health hazards associated with lead 
wheel weights are a preventable problem. People are exposed to 
lead fragments and dust when lead wheel weights fall from motor 
vehicles onto the nation's roadways and are then abraded and 
pulverized by traffic. Lead wheel weights on and alongside roadways 
can contribute to soil, surface and groundwater contamination and 
pose hazards to downstream aquatic life.
       Lead negatively affects every bodily system. While it is 
injurious to people of all ages, lead is especially harmful to 
fetuses,children, and adults of childbearing age. Effects of lead 
on a child's cognitive, behavioral, and developmental abilities may 
necessitate large expenditures of public funds for health care and 
special education. Irreversible damage to children and subsequent 
expenditures could be avoided if exposure to lead is reduced.

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