Chapter 5: Electronics Recycling: 5.4 Detoxification strategy - lead-free solders.

Chapter 5.4 of the book "The Metrics of Material and Metal Ecology: Harmonizing the Resource, Technology and Environmental Cycles" is presented. The chapter focuses on the use of lead-free solders as part of a detoxification strategy in the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment. It mentions that the lead deposited in landfills tend to leach and be exposed to groundwater. It examines the IDEALS project carried out from 1996 to 1999 which was designed to develop a lead-free soldering technology.