print email comment close Lead-Free Wheels URL: http://www.leadfreewheels.org/ Description: Background on this program that promotes alternatives to lead wheel weights, which "are used worldwide to balance vehicle tires." It notes that many of the wheel weights fall off and abrade into lead dust, "and increase the risk that lead will contaminate surface, groundwater, and drinking water supplies." Provides information about alternatives (such as zinc), listing of U.S. distributors of lead-free wheel weights, and a wheel-balancing fact sheet. From the Ecology Center. Publisher: Ecology Center Extra Keywords Toxic Substance Control Act TSCA LII Database Information: Record 28380 created by Jennifer English on 06/01/2009 Last modification on 06/15/2009 Published: 06/17/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28380