The Des Moines Register ran an editorial on Monday decrying the practice of putting old TVs into local landfills. You see inside every TV is a minute amount of mercury and lead. Which, when combined together, might create a little dab of mercury. Then tap water might be contaminated and little fishes die, all to be followed by general environmental chaos.
I've a little bit of free knowledge for the Des Moines Register staff: there is already mercury and lead in the soil. I know this is going to be hard to understand...but that is where mercury and lead come from.
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