01-14-2008, 05:20 AM
I speak of the military facilities, and you and be assured they are taking all precautions with Hazmat materials, including tracking after purchase (purchase only allowed to persons authorized to purchase it) and the quantity bought. Tracked to where it was used and the empty container or leftover material logged out and properly disposed of. Every movement is signed for, and the records kept for up to 50 years. Where the fed has been erant in the past, they're making up for it. If somthing does slip through, it's because of worker error, and is more likely a few rags missed in a cleanup than any damaging volume. If it is through negligence or on purpose, he'd hang.
You and weatherford seem to see any trace amount of a toxin as lethal. You cite a neighborhood test incinerator sounding an alarm over a towel and glass scraps from a flourescent light bulb producing a damaging dose in an incinerator. Yet now we're mandating them into our homes. The initial puff of dust is the lethal part as inhalation is the most damaging route of exposure. A small quantity of many toxic substances always has been always will exist. Minimize their releases, but don't ruin an economy and lifestyle over them! Or kill foreward progress, even if it affects your ideals!
You and weatherford seem to see any trace amount of a toxin as lethal. You cite a neighborhood test incinerator sounding an alarm over a towel and glass scraps from a flourescent light bulb producing a damaging dose in an incinerator. Yet now we're mandating them into our homes. The initial puff of dust is the lethal part as inhalation is the most damaging route of exposure. A small quantity of many toxic substances always has been always will exist. Minimize their releases, but don't ruin an economy and lifestyle over them! Or kill foreward progress, even if it affects your ideals!
Gordon J Tilley