#asbestos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #asbestos, aggregated by home.social.
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Elle’s twins played with asbestos-contaminated coloured sand for a year. Why wasn’t she warned of its danger?
By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporterA New Zealand couple has fought to uncover why customers were originally told the children’s product, on sale in Australia, was ‘low risk’
#Consumeraffairs #Australianews #Childrenshealth #Society #Productrecalls #Consumerrights #Asbestos #AustralianCompetitionandConsumerCommissionACCC #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter
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I was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin
By Anna TimsReader expresses consternation after enforcement officer issues penalty notice outside station in London
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/03/littering-fine-coffee-cup-rubbish-bag-next-to-full-bin
#Consumeraffairs #Localgovernment #Money #Retailindustry #Toys #Asbestos #Children #UKnews #TheGuardian #AnnaTims
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Contaminated children’s play sand sold in Australia can release toxic airborne asbestos, research finds
By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporterExclusive: New study contradicts statements that play products removed from shelves because of asbestos concerns were ‘low risk’
#Consumeraffairs #Australianews #Health #Asbestos #Children #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter
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Australian and NZ safety assurances about asbestos in play sand were based on supplier’s own assessment https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/20/play-sand-asbestos-safety-assurances-australia-nz-based-on-supplier-assessment #AustralianCompetitionAndConsumerCommissionAccc #Health #Asbestos #ConsumerAffairs #Children #AustraliaNews #NewZealand #Toys
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Australian and NZ safety assurances about asbestos in play sand were based on supplier’s own assessment
By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporterACCC updates some recall notices to say products ‘may cause risk to health’, contrary to previous claims
#AustralianCompetitionandConsumerCommissionACCC #Health #Asbestos #Consumeraffairs #Children #Australianews #NewZealand #Toys #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter
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Welcome ‘home’
Once, perhaps, a place of family warmth, security, refuge, arguments, problems, hopes and disappointments – of life itself.
Today, it is nothing more than a health hazard due to the presence of asbestos.
A testament to our greed in the search for profitable building materials – when for millennia we managed perfectly well with natural materials.
July 2025, Densole/Kent
#home #Densole #Kent #hazard #asbestos #BuildingMaterials #house #England #SilentSunday #architecture
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London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says
By Matthew WeaverFormer tube network cleaner says tribunal vindicated his health concerns, including about asbestos, that could affect public
#LondonUnderground #London #Industrialpolicy #Transport #Health #Asbestos #Waste #Environment #Society #UKnews #TheGuardian #MatthewWeaver
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London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/18/london-underground-passengers-should-know-about-toxic-dust-risks-whistleblower-says #LondonUnderground #London #IndustrialPolicy #Transport #Health #Asbestos #Waste #Environment #Society #UkNews
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Contaminated children’s play sand sold in Australia can release toxic airborne asbestos, research finds
By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter<strong>Exclusive:</strong> New study contradicts statements that play products removed from shelves because of asbestos concerns were ‘low risk’
#Consumeraffairs #Australianews #Health #Asbestos #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter
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Contaminated children’s play sand sold in Australia can release toxic airborne asbestos, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/09/contaminated-childrens-play-sand-sold-in-australia-can-release-toxic-airborne-asbestos-research-finds #ConsumerAffairs #AustraliaNews #Health #Asbestos
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I have a water heater in the ceiling.
I need the space for a new thing.
Options are;
demolish part of house to get the tank out intact,
or
demolish the tank to get it out in pieces.Now, I'm good with either, but the goal of "intact" seems moot to me since this heater has been in service for 43 years. But? Well I hate intentionally breaking things ....
Possible problem. The insulation. This plate says it was made in South Australia in 1983. I HOPE that date is past the last use of asbestos, but .... I don't KNOW that it is. Anyone know how to find out?
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NewCivilEngineer:
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EDF and Trillium Flow Services UK ‘failed to manage asbestos risks’ at nuclear power plant
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".. ONR has served EDF and Trillium Flow Services UK with two improvement notices each for “asbestos related shortfalls” at Torness nuclear power plant .."23.6.2026
#AGR #AKW #Arbeitsschutz #Asbest #Asbestos #Atomkraft #Atomkraftwerk #Dunbar #EDF #GreatBritain #Kernenergie #ONR #Schottland #Scotland #Torness #TrilliumFlowServices #UK #WorkplaceSafety
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Over the weekend, The Sunday Times published a story about #Asbestos in #WindTurbines which has generated considerable heat online. This is not a new issue: it first surfaced in Australia in late 2025, where multiple wind farms confirmed chrysotile in brake pads from Chinese manufacturer 3S Industry, and has been actively investigated ever since. The UK discovery almost certainly results from that ongoing global audit. The story is new; the problem, and the industry response, are not. 1/8
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AI is the asbestos of today, it is used in so many places and it will take decades before it is all cleaned up again and that will have to be done with the utmost precision.
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Hungarian roads may be contaminated with asbestos.
Measurements have shown that more than 300 sites in western Hungary have been covered with aggregates containing asbestos.
They may have been exposed to contamination when stones were transported there from Austrian mines.
#Hungary #Asbestos #Pollution #Mining #PublicHealth #Austria
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Hundreds of Hungarian roads may be contaminated with asbestos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMmFXVjt5Rg #Hungary #Asbestos
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To me what is repulsive is they think if they let LLM re-write it in Rust it will be automatically safer somehow because supposedly if you ignore all the fundamentals but it passes the Rust borrow checker it must be "safe' ..
It's like the 90s leaky building crisis or #asbestos "magic mineral" thinking building is now cheap / easier where they forget the foundations, waterproofing etc. hidden stuff only to hide later when epidemic of cancers and respiratory diseases a'la "find out later" phase pops up
No, Rust is not asbestos itself but LLM driven slop is definitely "magic mineral" that is expensive to remediate later.
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This is repeating horseshit hype.
Arstechnica should do better.
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La regla es que si algo podría llevar amianto lo más probable es que lo lleve, y las compañías que te venden ese amianto no lo comprobarán y en su lugar esperarán a que un comprador lo descubra y denuncie.
Y luego hay quien tiene la cara dura de decirnos que los casos de cáncer aumentan porque se detecta antes y la población envejece. -
Dozens of toys recalled in the UK after asbestos found in play sand https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/27/dozens-of-toys-recalled-in-the-uk-after-asbestos-found-in-play-sand #ProductRecalls #ConsumerAffairs #RetailIndustry #Asbestos #UkNews #Business #Money
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United Kingdom - Urgent Asbestos Warning: Major Toy Recalls Spark Health Alerts for Families
This toy is internationally available but currently I can only find reliable UK recall data.
https://uk-safety.news/parents-warned-to-dispose-of-toys-after-asbestos-found/
