Asbestos disposal

[Wastexprt]

Whos responsible after 25 years is up? At the end of the day its a hole in the ground. Asbestos doesnt leach that we know of.

Some can go on for 50 years, it all depends on planning and/or permit conditions, but I'm not sure it's a long time since I was involved with landfills and age is dulling the memory. Asbestos doesn't leach as far as I am aware, however, as it is classed as an absolute hazardous waste, to be able to bury it without the relevant safeguards in place would set a precedent for all other hazardous wastes to be buried without the safeguards.

 

[TheTallGuy]

It is not even remotely comparable. Question is, how many asbestos fibres does it take to cause cancer. It might be only one and time. I doubt whether one pack of cigarettes pose any risk.

I strongly suspect that anyone who is sufficiently susceptible to developing Mesothelioma from a single asbestos fibre is at a high risk of developing it from other causes - in much the same way that some folk smoke 40 ciggies a day and live to a good age, whereas others get lung cancer on much lower exposure.

 

[Brisel]

If you want to see a major industrial accident with thousands of deaths due to blue asbestos then Google search Wittenoom

 

[SilliamWhale]

If you want to see a major industrial accident with thousands of deaths due to blue asbestos then Google search Wittenoom

Now that is a different matter

 

[roscoe erf]

If you want to see a major industrial accident with thousands of deaths due to blue asbestos then Google search Wittenoom

or look at the aftermath of 911

 

[Brisel]

Now that is a different matter

True. Just trying to bring sobriety to the JFDI brigade. Not the same risk levels as an open cast crocidolite mine.

 

[HolzKopf]

On this subject - what does anyone know about the 'wrapping' issue. If you get a 20 or 40 yd skip do you wrap sheets (on a pallet?) and place in skip gently with telehandler or could you place large silage sheet in skip first, load up then wrap sides of sheet in? Who says wrapping has to be done (apart from skip co's) and what's the spec? We have an old building (hay shed) to take down later this year and has corrugated big 6 roof and vertical corrugated sheet walls all held on with hook bolts. Seems crazy job to wrap then landfill?

HK

 

[grainboy]

I use two disposal company's, both same conditions, cement bonded fibre, tipped into 40 yd bins,with roll over sheet, no wrapping, other asbestos has to be placed into enclosed bins, with rear doors, this causes the problem when loading with forklift,

 

[Steevo]

On this subject - what does anyone know about the 'wrapping' issue. If you get a 20 or 40 yd skip do you wrap sheets (on a pallet?) and place in skip gently with telehandler or could you place large silage sheet in skip first, load up then wrap sides of sheet in? Who says wrapping has to be done (apart from skip co's) and what's the spec? We have an old building (hay shed) to take down later this year and has corrugated big 6 roof and vertical corrugated sheet walls all held on with hook bolts. Seems crazy job to wrap then landfill?

HK

Any of the above methods is fine. One firm I dealt with wasn't fussed about wrapping, and said that provided the sheets were intact their "skip net" over the top would be just fine. Made a much easier job of it. Pallet forked it in and that was that.

 

[focussed]

Anyone disposed of anything recently? I have got 20t to go and being quoted around £200pt + haulage.

 

[nick...]

Spoke to a chap on site last week who said it was £160 ton delivered to ipswich
Nick...

 

[rob1]

Any of the above methods is fine. One firm I dealt with wasn't fussed about wrapping, and said that provided the sheets were intact their "skip net" over the top would be just fine. Made a much easier job of it. Pallet forked it in and that was that.

Which firm did you use ? We have just changed some sheets and I want to get rid of the old ones properly

 

[ACEngineering]

On this subject - what does anyone know about the 'wrapping' issue. If you get a 20 or 40 yd skip do you wrap sheets (on a pallet?) and place in skip gently with telehandler or could you place large silage sheet in skip first, load up then wrap sides of sheet in? Who says wrapping has to be done (apart from skip co's) and what's the spec? We have an old building (hay shed) to take down later this year and has corrugated big 6 roof and vertical corrugated sheet walls all held on with hook bolts. Seems crazy job to wrap then landfill?

HK

I just been through this. Striped the fibre cement sheets off my garage.
Thel
Local dump has a skip and they will take 8x 6 x 4 sheets if they are double wrapped in 1000gauge plastic. Which is damp proof membrane from builders merchants. I bought a roll from screwfix.

My sheets were all 8ft and 9ft long so i rang them to ask if i really had to cut them up smaller or would they not just fit in skip as they were given the fact handling and cutting etc should be kept to a minimum! The answer was no they wont fit in so wetted them chopped the ridges with axe and folded them in half then double wrapped and taped up with brown parcel tape. Time consuming but simple enough and once wrapped and tapped up they wouldnt know if there were 2 or 3 full sheets in there stacked on top each other!

Got some odd broken bits i found buried in garden all baged up and wrapped i was going to take last weeked but rang before hand and the skip was full and told to ring in weeks time once it had been emptied.

All its cost me is time and a roll of damp proof so happy enough with that. okay so if you got a great big barn to get rid off then this wouldnt be the answer but for the odd bit its ideal.

To wrap mine i just laid the damp proof on lawn and stacked the "cut down" sheets on it folded the damp proof over then folded the whole lot over on it back and then folded it again to get the double wrap. Folded ends over and tapped up.

 

[grainboy]

Hope you took full PPE into consideration when carrying out this ridiculous procedure.
Wrapping it to me, is once the horse has bolted,

 

[Still Farming]

Hope you took full PPE into consideration when carrying out this ridiculous procedure.
Wrapping it to me, is once the horse has bolted,

And use bad fitting crap GP cup mask! -hope not !