Maybe he's already in Galena, Md.
Disposing of lead-contaminated medium
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Maybe he's already in Galena, Md.
You can always package up the used media in a plastic jar or similar sealed,nonbreakable container, and wait for your county to have a household hazardous waste collection day. I believe HOCO offers this every Saturday at one of their waste facilities.
More likely the cleaning media would contain mostly the combustion byproducts of the styphnate and azide, i.e. various other lead salts and lead oxide. If there actually were significant amounts of the two original compounds as dust in a tumbler, that tumbler would probably violently disassemble itself. Both are friction-sensitive energetics, which is why they're used in primers.
And yes, many of those combustion products are also water soluble and skin-absorbable.
I'm curious if anyone has done this successfully if they were honest about what it was because most of these hazardous waste days have rules about what they will take.
AACO specifically says they'll take mercury-contaminated stuff, but is silent about non-metallic lead compounds. Ammo is a no-no, but that refers to live ammunition, not residue. Residue doesn't present the transportation problem that comes with moving live energetic materials. I'd guess they'd take contaminated tumbler media under the generic "household hazardous waste" category because that stuff just gets put in drums and sent to a hazardous waste landfill during the collection days.
Bolts Rock
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Close enough.
- Feb 4, 2013
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Lead azide decomposes to lead and nitrogen. Not a lead salt or oxide.
https://chemiday.com/en/reaction/3-1-0-734
Lead styphnate does produce lead oxides upon decomposition.
I stand corrected on the lead azide decomposition products.
I took a gallon-sized zip-loc bag of spent primers to the local recycler, and they didn't bat an eye. They just ran a magnet through the primers to make sure there was nothing magnetic in the bag. I think I got about $18 for it.
No shit, I'll save mine moving forward
- Feb 4, 2013
- 28,175
NP, I was wondering, so looked it up. And it wasn't that easy to find.
I did not realize that lead azide was lead and nitrogen, only.
Good to know, thanks!
Speedluvn
Active Member
Im just started out reloading. I’m curious as to where this recycler is located?
KenS
Roof Rack
Glad to see some science-based replies and advice; that helps solidify procedures to follow when I venture back to the range and in any reloading.
Thank you for your input.
Thank you for your input.
