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 short answer is we didn’t, we just banned its use in products.
There is still a lot of asbestos out there particularly in older buildings.
As those buildings get torn down and renovated the asbestos gets removed and replaced with things that are safer. In theory this is done in a safe manner but not always.
Asbestos itself isn’t dangerous if it’s just sitting there, it’s the dust that’s dangerous. So its presence in a building isn’t necessarily harmful until people start messing with it or if there is a fire.
More importantly workers in factories that used to make stuff using asbestos are a lot safer because they aren’t constantly exposed to it in a harmful form anymore.
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