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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The process of removing it from a building usually goes: seal off the part of the building that asbestos is being removed from (or sometimes the whole building) with plastic, set up special ventilation systems, workers wearing disposable clothing wet the asbestos-containing material down (so it can’t easily form dust) and remove it, the asbestos-containing material and anything else it touched and the clothing are all double bagged, the sealed waste bags are taken to a landfill with a license to handle asbestos.
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