“Most people assume that the chemicals in the products and materials they encounter every day have been thoroughly tested and shown to be safe,” Denison said. “In fact, only a handful of chemicals have ever been reviewed for safety.”
Gosh. Some blatantly uninformed opinions here. I've been in that industry. Many of the paint solvents which were banned were outright carcinogenic. Lots of commercial painters were dead before their mid-50's, just like cropdusters. Many others have permanent nerve damage. Some of these things easily exploded. Several massive explosions occurred right in this neighborhood, big enough to level entire industrial building and shatter windows miles away. Cancer rates were about twelve times the national average in vicinity of the factories. Hysteria is not what drives control. In fact, politicians are basically "deniers" who are extremely reluctant to to tamper with industries who routinely grease their palm. Air quality rules are a bit different, since that is not something generally governed by the EPA but by regional districts. Some rules are silly and counterproductive, simply because the agencies cry wolf so often that nobody listens, or because alternative products might be even worse. But overall, the EPA has saved a lot of lives.
Gosh. Some blatantly uninformed opinions here. I've been in that industry. Many of the paint solvents which were banned were outright carcinogenic. Lots of commercial painters were dead before their mid-50's, just like cropdusters. Many others have permanent nerve damage. Some of these things easily exploded. Several massive explosions occurred right in this neighborhood, big enough to level entire industrial building and shatter windows miles away. Cancer rates were about twelve times the national average in vicinity of the factories. Hysteria is not what drives control. In fact, politicians are basically "deniers" who are extremely reluctant to to tamper with industries who routinely grease their palm. Air quality rules are a bit different, since that is not something generally governed by the EPA but by regional districts. Some rules are silly and counterproductive, simply because the agencies cry wolf so often that nobody listens, or because alternative products might be even worse. But overall, the EPA has saved a lot of lives.
I don't remember now what chemical it was, but there was a move to limit the use and sale of something about 15-20 years ago that was stopped by the paint industry. The politicians were trying to ban the use of something that if it were gone, certain types of paint would be either 10 times the cost or impossible to make. The politicians were (as usual) grossly under-informed and were reacting to a single event or something stupid. It didn't get far in committee, luckily.
Part of the problem is that mass hysteria gets as much credit as logic and scientific knowledge. Movements to ban things come about because of social media campaigns rather than by scientific research.
My supervisor always used to laugh at me and shake his head when I was trying to find logic in something the state was doing. It only gets worse at the federal level and involving politicians seems to trump all logic.
Gosh. Some blatantly uninformed opinions here. I've been in that industry. Many of the paint solvents which were banned were outright carcinogenic. Lots of commercial painters were dead before their mid-50's, just like cropdusters. Many others have permanent nerve damage. Some of these things easily exploded. Several massive explosions occurred right in this neighborhood, big enough to level entire industrial building and shatter windows miles away. Cancer rates were about twelve times the national average in vicinity of the factories. Hysteria is not what drives control. In fact, politicians are basically "deniers" who are extremely reluctant to to tamper with industries who routinely grease their palm. Air quality rules are a bit different, since that is not something generally governed by the EPA but by regional districts. Some rules are silly and counterproductive, simply because the agencies cry wolf so often that nobody listens, or because alternative products might be even worse. But overall, the EPA has saved a lot of lives.
proper precautions.
and i would venture to guess
that 90%+ of the people that buy their products think disposing of safely is
just dumping it down the drain, whether it is selenium toner, TF4 fixer,
radioactive toner (uraneeium ) HQ, or other stuff ...
if it ends up that the epa makes it harder for people to obtain photochemistry
and have a paper trail that they disposed of it safely because it is on a safe disposal list that's fine with me ..
locally they took silver-fixer off of the hasmat list and now it is on a lesser-hasmat list, so i have a feeling
it really doesn't matter too much.
and the liberal goal of controlling our lives
...but as far as I know... home photochemical use is not causing any significant health or environmental problems outside of the rare irresponsible/stupid user. What exactly is the real problem that restrictions/paper trails would fix?
As with most aspects of the US government scene lately, it's at the state level, not federal, where the biggest jackasses are. And, among those, Michigan's "Emergency Manager" dictator law (that suspends democracy), the most radical policy in the country, has caused this lead fiasco:...Of course, you do have some jackass types in congress denying the hazards of lead paint...
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