Saturday, October 23, 2010

Wheel lead weights are a drag on the environment

The symptom is apparent; you can feel a shake in your car as you drive. It is obvious in the steering wheel or the front itself. The problem is that the car has lifted a wheel weight. This, in itself, is not a problem you just take the car somewhere and get the rebalanced wheel and shake go a way.

But that is the weight of wheel, you lost could that presents a problem? Step in and of itself, it weighs only about a quarter of an ounce of perhaps two ounces . But it is only from your car - today.It has been estimated by the United States Geological Survey and the U.S. Federal Highway Safety Administration 2000 tons wheel weight drops off the coast of vehicles each year if the tonnage United States is not your attention that the composition of the weight of the wheel can - they are made of lead.

The same substance which has some time, we went to great lengths to eliminate our House Paint because as paint flaked might be ingested by children played on windowsills and of skirting boards. Lead poisoning is connected to a host of ailments ranging from intelligence to kidney problems.

Urban environment is particularly vulnerable to an accumulation of lost weight because they are dislodged wheels when edges are scratched or potholes are affected on busy city streets. Lost weight is then ground traffic (plomb_est_lourd_et_doux) and eventually swept of sewers and streams and potentially impacting negatively on the groundwater and the ecosystem.

The United States are behind the curve in response to problems with wheel lead weight.Their use was completely banned on new vehicles and spare wheels by the EU in 2005Korea and the Japan are in train of gradually in weight of lead and manufacturers in Europe and Asia are using zinc and steel as substitutes such as car companies in this country. ?

3 M Company markets a system that uses the composite material and adhesive weight high strength in a format that replaces tape the hammered on plomb.Tous weight these alternatives should be used to achieve the objective of the voluntary EPA national lead Wheel weight initiative, which is to eliminate the use of lead-free wheel weight at the end of 2011 to the greatest possible extent."

In the average of time, you can find installers tire use only weights wheel lead-free, or specify that tires be balanced without plomb.De similarly pollution wheel weight intervene once a quarter at a time, the solution can be to occur, at least at the beginning, the gradual way.


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