Posted on 08/08/2018 6:14:24 PM PDT by Fawn
'New Uses' of Asbestos? Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a framework that will create opportunities for "new uses" of asbestos. On June 1, the EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics announced plans for a "Significant New Use Rule" (SNUR) for the substance
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The environmental housing movement needs a boogyman to prop up the boogyman removal industries.
The first I noticed was Asbestos.
Then Radon gas.
Then Mold.
The latest comes to you via the pest control industry. They are getting thousands of dollars to permanently seal crawl spaces with vapor barrier plastic across the ground and up the sides of the foundation.
Asbestos is great stuff.
Don’t breath it in. Or drink Clorox. Or combine Clorox and ammonium. Or eat rat poison. Or douse yourself with gasoline and light a match. Or stick a fork in a wall socket.
“Hope this isn’t true.... “
I don’t left the Left tell me what I can use and what I cannot use. I let safety and common sense make that decision.
In the case of asbestos, it’s a mixed bag. You certainly don’t want to liberate the fibers, and then breathe them, but that doesn’t mean asbestos is pure evil, either.
My grandparents ate greasy food, painted their houses with lead paint, used leaded gas, had asbestos covering their pipes, wore asbestos gloves to take pots off the stove, used dry cleaning solvent to clean their shotguns (it really works well) and all four some how manged to live well into their 80s.
One of my grandparents told me that humans are programmed to worry. In his day they worried about starvation, infection and war. Since starvation, infection and war are pretty remote reasons for death in your average family, we worry about things at the margin.
As a long time resident of SF, and as jr Member of the California Academy of Sciences in high school, as I recall the old Mint building near Market St. and Duboce Ave. sits on a blocks long lump of the stuff.
Thanks for your long service.
I was on a carrier, ‘60-’62, in Catapults. Standing my watches, I had to check all three cats. The steam accumulators on the hanger deck were all covered with asbestos, as were all of the steam lines below the flight deck. Without the insulating asbestos, no sailors could have been anywhere nearby.
I removed asbestos soffits in my house last summer to replace them with vented soffits. It was such a non-big deal the county landfill had an open dumpster for asbestos. I used proper PPE and removal techniques threw the stuff away. I wish big enough sections came off. I would have kept some for heat shields or something.
This is why Republicans are called the stupid party. Senseless.
Asbestos is like any other hazardous material, learn to work with it safety and you will be okay.
So what if he is?
Don’t let your kids chew on the window sill......
Why are you concerned? Might want to brush up on asbestos use before biting on this piece of rotten bait....
Thanks. And thank you for your service as well.
What about touching a hot stove?
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Asbestos belongs in the manufacturing industry, as long as it is amphobile asbestos.
There was no legitimate reason to ban it.
Somehow common sense has to prevail.
Hopefully, Freon 12 will be next. It is used almost everywhere else!
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Banning Amphobile Asbestos is why Republicans are called the Stupid Party!
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