Lead is soft - you're definitely leaving traces of lead on your hands when you handle it. That then goes onto your clothes, your skin, and everything you touch.

Lead is soft - you're definitely leaving traces of lead on your hands when you handle it. That then goes onto your clothes, your skin, and everything you touch. But anyway - it's not really the point. The point is, I can confidently say that some idiot burning a trash bin isn't going to scatter lead all over the local enivroment - ditto a house fire, or a car crash, or somebody dumping a computer in a stream.