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   Wayfarer | May 26, 2004 07:37pm | #1

   I'm not exactly sure, but it may be an issue of "who is qualified to remove asbestos."  You could probably get a quick answer either contacting the City you are working in, or even calling an asbestos abatement company which there should be a few in the Yellow Pages.

   If you decide to do it on the sly, you probably want to keep the stuff wet as you are removing it, and put it in plastic bags.  In bags, the landfill may not even know what you have in there; once the stuff is buried, it's no big deal.

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   RickD | May 26, 2004 07:46pm | #2

   don't assume it's a landfill and not an incinerator; get it done right, it's not as expensive as you would think, lots more contractors out there doing the work have driven down the price

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   Wayfarer | May 27, 2004 02:31am | #3

   You're right about the cost not being that prohibitive; well, I guess it depends.  I made a call for some asbestos ducting (on the outside of the ducting) removal of my uncle's place.  They quoted $1250 which was kind of a minimum and given the footage I gave them, they were not turned off by it being another 40, 50 feet to take away.  I think the whole set up is probably what is expensive with tarping and what not.

   I would not burn asbestos and am assuming the individual above was going to a landfill.

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   RickD | May 27, 2004 05:01pm | #4

   I am not sure in CA, but I know the trash from my town out here in MA goes to an incinerator, my point is only that you cannot always assume it's being disposed of properly unless you hire a licensed asbestos removal outfit (I assume CA has the same strict license/reporting requirements as MA) or do it yourself

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   Wayfarer | May 27, 2004 05:53pm | #5

   Rick, I'm pretty sure, at least in Northern California, any organized type of disposal of garbage/rubbish is buried in landfill here.  I think perhaps in the 60's, 70', and earlier there might have been burning of trash (and there still may be a little burning of one specific type of refuse).

   I guess my point was earlier that when you drive to the dump around here (N. California), you see almost at the moment you wing the stuff out of your pickup it being moved and buried.  You raise a good point though; however, here in California I think refuse is highly managed and controlled.  I still remember, what, 10 years ago, that a barge of refuse that no body wanted, and as a result of dumping in the ocean or some other problem, needles and other stuff were washing up on Long Island shores?

   Also, regarding landfill; although here in California we are fast approaching 30 million people, if you inlay the length and width of California to the Eastern Seaboard, I think there are far great than 30 million in that same region.

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   RickD | May 27, 2004 09:26pm | #6

   Out here, landfills are closing pretty much everywhere, or being capped and built on.  NYC ships most of its trash to Virginia (where it belongs, mind you).  I think there is one landfill run by the state, that's where the asbestos is supposed to go . . .