Rack Scrap Lead

Rack Scrap Lead

Lead is a highly corrosion resistant, dense, ductile, and malleable blue-grey metal, which has been used for at least 5000 years. ... Due to its corrosion resistance, lead scrap is available for recycling, decades or even centuries after it is manufactured. Lead is a soft metal as well as the 82nd periodic element. We use this soft, gray, and weighty metal in electronics, vehicles, and even batteries. ... Knowledge of lead's uses helps in many jobs which produce and need its scrap, knowing or unknowingly. Soft Lead scrap is generally free of any impurities and carries the highest price as it requires minimal refinement. This high quality lead scrap is often obtained from lead cables after stripping off their insulation jackets. Lead and lead compounds have been used in a wide variety of products found in and around our homes, including paint, ceramics, pipes and plumbing materials, solders, gasoline, batteries, ammunition and cosmetics. Lead may enter the environment from these past and current uses.

Lead is toxic mainly because it preferentially replaces other metals (e.g., zinc, calcium and iron) in biochemical reactions. It interferes with the proteins that cause certain genes to turn on and off by displacing other metals in the molecules.