From my Gen Z understanding, asbestos was found out to be really toxic and damaging, but how did we purge it like we did lead in most products? I know with other hazardous waste we have to bury it for the foreseeable thousands of years, or it turns into a superfund site. What methods did we manly use to get rid of asbestos? I have also checked search, and search engines extensively to see similar queries but I have found none. So, I see this to be OC if that makes sense, or an original question.
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Asbestos is a natural rock. If you grind the rock you can get a mineral fiber that has amazing properties. This mineral fiber unfortunately can destroy people’s lungs very very efficiently.
The solution is to take every thing made with this fiber and bury it. Asbestos is completely natural, as long as you don’t breathe asbestos dust, the material is harmless. Unfortunately all the uses we found for the fiber did include making dust, from brake pads dust, to asbestos clothing dust, to insulation material dust. All the uses we find tend to emit a lot of killer dust.
Solution: Just bury it in a place that is known, so no one goes there digging spreading the killer dust around again. As long as it is buried it can’t spread dust in the air.
In some millennia it will become harmless rock again.
The only complication of getting rid of asbestos is that you need to protect very very well the people that collect it and bring it to the burial. That’s the one and only cost, the hole in the ground is pretty simple.
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