Re: Don't try this at home...
Yes, my council takes away up to 40kg of asbestos waste from the doorstep, although if you tried it regularly i think they would withdraw the privilege.
Mention is often made of white asbestos being 'safer' than brown and blue, but the physicality of the actual fibres is what makes blue and brown catastrophically hazardous- that is to say they are amphibole type- short, sharp, stiff fibres which the lung cilia cannot expel. Serpentine statistically causes less long term problems in the body since the lungs tend to be able to expel them. (Although you would not want to test this..) Seen microscopically they are similar to wavy dogs hair.
Dave
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