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Don't Burn PCB's!!
List members,
Please, don't try to dispose of any PCB oil by burning it!!
Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyls are nasty enough as they are, but if you set fire
to oil containing PCB you will generate Dioxin gas which is deadly.
(remember the Bhopal disaster?)
PCB's have to be incinerated at very high temperatures to break them down
and prevent Dioxin from forming.
Simply setting fire to it in a bucket, will burn it at too lower
temperature!
There are few companies in the UK (and the US?) that have the special
license to permit them to dispose of it by incineration.
This is why it costs so much to get rid of it!
Steer well clear of PCB filled pigs. They are too much of a liability.
The most responsible thing to do is not to buy one in the first place!
Wishing you all safe coiling!
Martin Dale,
TCBON UK
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> From: Tesla List[SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 7:44PM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: pole pig needed PCB
>
> Original Poster: gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
> I talked with the power company here and asked them what they do with the
> oil from old power line pole transformers and if any of the old units have
> PCB. They said they don't know if the old units have PCB but its possible
> that they do. They have a oil burn pot that they put all the used oil in
> and they set it on fire and burn it. They don't worry about PCB they just
> burn it. The burn pot looks like a 24" piece of steel pipe about 12" tall
> with a piece of 1/4" steel welded on one end.
>
> Service stations will take used oil and not ask any questions. I chance
> my
> own oil on both trucks and the car and when I get a 5 gallon bucket of oil
> I
> take it to a service station and get rid of it. I just pour it into the
> holding tank and once a month a truck comes and takes it back to the oil
> refinery.
>
> If you have used oil its not any trouble to get rid of it.
>
> Gary Weaver
>
> <<<< Even I have to mention something here... If you knowingly dispose of
> a toxic substance in an "improper" or "unsafe way" and get caught. The
> legal problems will far outweigh any reasons for not paying to have the
> substance disposed of properly. The fines and jail times are enormous...
> A case in point. If I refill a disposable gas cylinder with air to say
> fill my car tires with air, the fine is $500,000 and five years. I don't
> think you want to mess with the biggest brother on this one. You could
> easily get squished! - Terry >>>>
>
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