Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition for Australia to create the world’s first Circular Economy for Lead -

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The Petition is signable until 11:59pm (AEDT) on Weds 4^th Dec 2024 and will be presented to Parliament if there are 50 or more signatures.

Click the link to sign – https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714

or go to https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/ and search for circular

Petition Details

Petition Address

To the Hon. Speaker of the House of Representatives and Members of the House of Representatives, Australia

Petition Of

Certain citizens of Australia

Petition Title

Circular Economy for Lead

Petition Reason

Australia is the world’s largest lead (ore/concentrate) exporter – often to countries with lax controls on shipping, smelting, refining, manufacturing and recycling, allowing the continuing flow of Australian lead into cheap products that’re banned here (like lead paint, toxic Ayurvedic medicines/spices/cosmetics); and into footpath/backyard/kitchen recycling (including by children). The annual global cost of lead exposure is US$6 trillion (2019) – 7% of global GDP. A moratorium on all new ‘lead mines’ (where lead is the highest tonnage metal) especially ‘greenfield’ projects like Bowdens, will prevent land and water contamination of agricultural/grazing land/indigenous sites and reduce water, fossil-fuel and infrastructure requirements. ‘Mining’ existing lead from the built environment; and incentivising householders to replace lead with non-lead flashing, especially on rainwater collection roof areas; and industry to collect, transport and recycle lead radiation shielding, weights, pewter, brass, solder, spent ammunition along with used lead acid batteries; and to manufacture new lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead; and ‘export’ lead ingots with the technology/policy to assist other countries to achieve lead circularity, will obviate the need for newly-mined lead, create a smarter world (more capable of solving the climate crisis), and create a lead-safe and climate-safe planet for future generations.

Petition Request

We therefore ask the House to create lead circularity: commit to a moratorium on all new mine projects where lead is the major mine product by weight, and incentivize ‘mining’ the built environment and waste-streams for lead; manufacturing new lead acid batteries from 100% recycled-lead; and exporting lead ingots, and lead-safety technologies/knowledge.

Principal Petitioner Information

Name

Elizabeth O’Brien, The LEAD Group Inc charity

Email: info@lead.org.au

Phone: 0297160014

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FULL EXPLANATION BEHIND THE PETITION

Petition Reason

To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives, given that Australia is the world’s largest lead (ore and concentrate) exporter and that the annual global financial cost of lead exposure was US$6 trillion in 2019 – equivalent to 7% of global GDP – Australia needs to become the world’s first circular economy for lead and then export the technology and policy to assist Australian lead-importing and other countries to achieve lead circularity. We, the undersigned, urgently petition the House to begin by ending lead mining in Australia and especially “greenfield” lead mining which is not green but rather new mining proposed in areas which have not been mined before. We call upon the Federal Minister for Environment and Water to commit to a moratorium on all new ‘lead mine’ projects and to incentivise industry to manufacture new lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead, and to ‘mine’ existing lead from the built environment and the community. We petition the Minister to end the approval of all new ‘lead mine’ proposals including any mine proposal where the major tonnage of metal to be extracted will be lead. Such proposals are often presented as ‘silver mine’, ‘gold mine’, ‘tin mine’, ‘zinc mine’, etc but should be required to name the proposal as a ‘lead mine’. For instance, ‘Bowdens Silver’ mine is proposed/estimated to produce 90 times more lead than silver and will destroy agricultural/grazing land, tourism and indigenous sites and place a too-heavy burden on water use and fossil-fuel use to create infrastructure for the construction, operation and ore transport out-of-state. We further ask the Minister to incentivise householders to safely replace lead flashing with non-lead flashing, especially on rainwater collection roof areas, and incentivize industry to safely collect, transport and recycle previously-mined lead, such as lead flashing, radiation shielding lead sheet, lead weights, pewter, brass, solder, spent ammunition along with used lead acid batteries and other leaded wastes like removed lead paint waste, lead-contaminated building void dusts, soil and sediments. The need for newly-mined lead (and other metals found with lead in these recyclables) will be obviated, populations will be smarter (therefore potentially more able to solve the climate crisis), and the Australian and global environment will be lead-safe and climate-safe for future generations.

Petition Request

We therefore ask the House to take the first step towards a national circular economy for lead (the toxic heavy metal) and commit to a moratorium on all new mine projects where the major mine product by weight will be lead (whether it is proposed as a ‘lead mine’ or ‘silver mine’, ‘gold mine’, ‘tin mine’, ‘zinc mine’, etc) and instead incentivize ‘mining’ the built environment and waste-streams for lead and any other metals found with lead in lead-containing products and wastes, and the technological improvements to enable all leaded products/wastes (not just used lead acid batteries) to be collected and recycled safely and to be manufactured (both here and overseas) into lead acid batteries made from 100% recycled-lead ingots and with the target of replacing all Australian lead ore or concentrate exports with lead ingots, in order to avoid lax shipping, smelting and refining controls and the continuing escape of Australian lead into street recycling by children and black markets in non-OECD-importing countries.

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Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition for Australia to create a Circular Economy for Lead

Once you’ve signed the Petition, please share the Circular Economy for Lead petition link with all your contacts.

The Petition is signable until 11:59pm (AEDT) on Weds 4^th Dec 2024 and will be presented to Parliament if there are 50 or more signatures.

Click the link to sign – https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714

or go to https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/ and search for circular

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Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714

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