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>>>Bob,
I agree with you. I was just offering the person who complained about the environmental hazards an option. I haven't done B&W in a lab for years. You can recover the silver from the solution but it is no longer profitable. When I had a lab I had two drain systems, one went to an outside pan where the solution evaporated and residue went packaged to the dump. This at least didn't poison the ground water (especially since I had a well supplying my house with water).>>> We love situational ethics. We want a spotless environment just as long as
it is your environment and not OUR environment. We want clean burning fuels
with little chance of environmental impact, but we do not want nuclear plants
because, well, they will "blow up killing us all." Or so the uneducated people
think because the experts say so.
We want CDs and DVDs but we do not want that nasty plant in our backyard.
We want the other guy to drive less, not us.
We love to worry about the environment and quite often, our worry is silly
and not based on facts. We feel we need to be concerned, but we do not know why
we should be concerned.
Processing Kodachrome is probably a safe activity. Again, I am not an
expert, but I must assume Kodak practices safe disposals techniques and
reclamation procedures. They must do so by law. I am equally certain sometimes
they bend a few rules. If not Kodak, then other manufacturers.
Everything we love, use, enjoy, and depend upon to live the life we
want to live is processed, compounded, extruded, dyed, treated, mixed, and
manufactured from something unsafe. We either give up everything so we can
legitimately preach what we want others to practice, or move to a nice cave.
Bob
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