In article , HeyBub wrote:
harry wrote:

The problem is that it's indestrucable. It will be there forever.

That's good.

The Chromium in the dyes used to color a box of Tide will, when the empty
box is placed in a landfill, detach itself from the decomposed substrate and
(possibly) leech into the water system where it will poison your
great-grandchildren.

Asbestos, and the like, does not need to be trained to stay where it was
put.

First, I would like to say that was well-put.

Second, I would like to say that printing inks are heavily based on
organic dyes - no chromium. (But some of the organic compounds used could
be things that the chemophobes would like to say are almost as toxic as
Agent Orange and DDT.)

Back to first - asbestos in the ground and plastic in the ground are
harmless.

Heck, most people who got horrible diseases from asbestos were
regularly/frequently inhaling visible clouds of asbestos fibers. That
sounds to me like hundreds of thousands sometimes millions of fibers per
cubic meter of air. This includes some of the housewives of the men who
worked in the "ground zero areas" of exposure to friable asbestos fibers,
who did the laundry work unto their husbands' clothes. Probably, some of
these housewives shook the clothes to shake off the portion of the dust
that was easy to shake off.

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- Don Klipstein )