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After burning, wouldn't there still be glass in the ash?  And other 
than being bad to breath, and irritating to the skin, is fiberglass all 
that toxic?  I would think that in a landfill, fiberglass would sit 
fairly benignly, neither escaping into the nearby air/water/soil not 
especially damaging anything else.  I've never thought of fiberglass as 
an especially potent or dangerous toxin.

Ginda

On Apr 17, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Dylan Ford wrote:

> The fellow who was burning it was not the same who "knew" about the
> chemicals. I am always surprised when people save their approbation 
> for the
> person at the end of a series of environmentally-destructive acts of
> manufacture who is trying to gain an additional use from a material 
> before
> it enters our vast waste stream and not a word about the folks who
> heedlessly commit the original environmentally-destructive acts all day
> every day for profit.
>     If that fellow has committed an environmental crime by burning the
> fibreglass fibres out of some wallboard, how about the folks who place
> fibreglass fibres into wallboard? How about those who manufacture 
> fibreglass
> fibres? They will eventually get loose from the wallboard. It becomes a
> question of do you prefer to ingest your carcinogenic fibreglass in 
> fibre
> form blowing out of landfills for the next several millenia, or as a
> carcinogenic gas mixed into your atmosphere? It is like the proverbial
> swallowing the camel but straining at a gnat.
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Pat Meadows" <pat@containerseeds.com>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] gypsum / organinc cert.
>
>
> > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:51:29 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > > the sheets strength and someone who claimed that over 100 chemicals 
> > > are
> > > added into the glue, paper and gypsum to provide fire-retardance and
> other
> > > qualities. If you break a piece in your hands you will see the 
> > > fibres.
> One
> > > fellow said he ran it in small pieces through his woodburning stove 
> > > first
> to
> > > eliminate everything but the gypsum, and then spread it on his 
> > > pastures
> with
> > > the ashes.
> >
> > So he's burning something with 'over 100 chemicals' - I bet
> > that it didn't do his neighbors (who have to breathe the
> > smoke) much good.  I cannot fathom why people are stupid
> > enough to do something like this: or uncaring enough about
> > the environment and other people.
> >
> > Pat
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