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Lead in recycled-metal cookware a health threat in Africa

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Cost of removing the lead (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-20 02:20 (#2SMY)

Another challenge for the scientific community: Find a cheap way to remove lead from recycled metals as part of the recovery process

Re: Cost of removing the lead (Score: 2, Informative)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-20 16:35 (#2SND)

It would have to be dead-simple tech, though. I've spent the past 25 years living in countries (half of that in Africa) where people steal manhole covers, melt them down over charcoal fires, and bang them into cooking pots. Just to point out that the level of tech here needs to be at around the level of people using charcoal as their fuel source.

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