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(OldScrawn) wrote in message ...

them. If it is asbestos you are supposed to double bag and label it, in
practice the main thing is to get it to relative safety buried in a proper tip.

There are 3 types of abestos: white, blue, brown. White is almost
harmless, the meso-thingy it causes occurs when workers are deluged
with snowballs of the stuff day after day. Not when they spray one
piece with paint/pva and come back next day and remove it.

Brown is the bad news stuff, blue less so. Its unfortunate they all
have the same name 'asbestos' or we'd almost certainly still be using
white asbestos. Cement has known risks too from its toxic thallium
content.

Regards, NT