A question about silver from fixer

Mainecoonmaniac · Apr 16, 2018

Over the weekend working in my darkroom, I found some silver extracted from my plastic fixer bottle. I poured the silver sludge into a glass graduate and it dried out and now I have a dark, silvery gray powder. What can I do with it? I don't want to throw it out since it's a heavy metal and it would contaminate the landfill. Could I use it somehow in some sort of conventional or alternative process?

MattKing · Apr 16, 2018

Silver isn't a heavy metal, and it isn't dangerous. In metallic form, it makes good jewelry.
It is anti-bacterial, so it can be bad for septic systems, which depend on bacteria to function.

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Mainecoonmaniac said:
Over the weekend working in my darkroom, I found some silver extracted from my plastic fixer bottle. I poured the silver sludge into a glass graduate and it dried out and now I have a dark, silvery gray powder. What can I do with it? I don't want to throw it out since it's a heavy metal and it would contaminate the landfill. Could I use it somehow in some sort of conventional or alternative process?

save enough of it and bring it to a refiner they will give you some $$ for it. you can contact your town/city and ask when hazmat recycling day is, and just give it to them too...

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