Phil L wrote:

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It's usually a pile of ******** when people are told this, those paper suits
are about £2 and respirators are about £15, have a guess who's inside it? -
you've got it, the builder's mate / brother / dad and the crap is carted
away and placed in a skip which costs about £100....if it is the real deal
(which it almost certainly is not) the genuine asbestos removal people are
pretty much the same - scaremongerers who want a pile of cash for
nothing....if it was mine I would order a skip, (and buy a respirator and
paper suit) then place the sheets on the bottom and cover the lot up with
bushes, earth, rubble, bricks etc, whichever way you go, the 'asbestos' will
end up in the same place - in a skip.

And then The Doctor will zap it with his sonic screwdriver so it
disappears??

What do you think happens to the contnts of skips?

They are emptied and sorted, and if the skip owner finds you have been
hiding potentially dangerous stuff in his skip, he's not going to be
very happy - and there will probably be a clause in the skip hire
contract which states that the price you pay is just for hardcore/soil
etc, and if anything else is found then you get billed. Of course, you
don't have to pay, but a lot of these characters prefer to use a length
of lead piping rather than a solicitors letter!

Don't be a plonker!