EPA will pursue a ban on the 'manufacture and distribution' of lead tire weights.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nxvqrx


http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/epa-to-ban-lead-tire-weights/

This has been looming for a long, long time. It's been talked about in the tire trade for years, literally. If anyone in the business isn't prepared, they've been living in a cave.

I think CA already has, or is close.

A whole lot of government people have to justify their exhorbitant pay and benefit package.

Then what, fishing weights?

Which is why they are being banned. This is not a sustainable commodity, as lead weights are thrown off wheels into our environment. If they weren't thrown, there'd be no problem, no ban.

Ah, give them a break... After all, some unsuspecting young mother might grab fallen weights by the side of the road, run them through the food processor and feed them to the kids.

How much lead is dumped into the enviroment by 3rd world countries? Oh! that happens far away so it doesn't matter. Kids go out on the roads and eat lead weights and eat them.

There are a number of options. Here is an article about them... http://www.steelwheelweights.com/pdf/APR_weights.pdf

I find these to be the most interesting option... http://imiproducts.com/xact/index.aspx

That's what I was thinking.

Probably closer than you think. The lead shot in shotgun shells has been taken away in a lot of waterfowl areas.
Hey, a duck could eat a fishing weight just as easy.

Smaller lead sinkers are already banned in NY,NH,VT,ME,Canada and the UK.

under a certain size already banned ,some lakes total ban

banned 2004

I wonder if the science behind this is any better than the absurd 1978 legislation on lead in paint. That greatly increased costs, reduced the value of older homes, while adding nothing to the safety of children.