Risks to health and environment of the use of lead in products in the EU

Arnold Tukker, Harrie Buist, Lauran van Oers and Ester van der Voet

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2006, vol. 49, issue 2, 89-109

Abstract: The EU Commission's Services asked TNO and CML to perform a study into the risks of the present uses of lead over time, as an input to a discussion on the need of a further reduction of the use of this material. The study was set up as a substance flow analysis to analyse trends in uses and emissions of lead in Europe between 2000 and 2030. The study showed among others that the flow to (final) landfill of lead is declining from about 290ktpa in 2000 to 220ktpa in 2003 for the EU15. Alloys, or more specifically lead in electronic equipment, contribute to about 5% of these flows.

Keywords: Lead; Lead products; Substance flow analysis; SFA; Material flow analysis; MFA; Risk assessment; EU15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.03.005

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