Lead Weights are a contaminant in auto and steel recycling operations, contaminating shredder residue and electric arc furnaces. Weights are often mismanaged and not recycled, and they provide a route to occupational lead exposure to employees through the handling of the weights.

To achieve top speed, Lead Weight is used in Car. Lead Weight is approximately 1.8 times heavier than the lead free weight. Thus it allows a greater freedom in designing car. An added advantage is that lead is quite soft, thus it can be easily shaped to fit in the best location on the car.

Applications

• A Lead Weight suspended by a line, used to make soundings.
• Lead Weights are still used for fishing.
• Lead Weight is widely used for many weighting applications, for example, curtain weights, wheel balance weights, weights for analytical instruments and even yacht keels.