What do the council do with my asbestos?

[basherX]

Balking at the quotes I was given for removing my old leaky garage roof I realised that I could buy the proper PPE for two (who says romance is dead) plus the plastic to cover it plus associated bits and bobs for under £200. My local dump will take 4 sheets a month as long as it's double wrapped so disposal can be done in one month plus 1 day. Removal of 8 3m sheets plus wrapping has taken a day but I've been VERY careful and having seen some so-called professionals at it on a neighbours place previously I reckon there's less chance of me having left dust etc on the beams.

So, well done me...

But the purpose of the post is that this all got me wondering- what do the council do with it when I hand it off to them. Does it get buried in a very deep hole?

[basherX]

finlo said:

Thought you needed a licence to remove it?

You go to jail for touching it here.

Where's here? I think you only need to be licensed if your offering asbestos removal as a commercial service.

[basherX]

jagracer said:

It should get buried in landfill in a specially dug hole and then covered. Nothing special really, it's just a good way to make a lot of extra money for the landfill owner although there is masses of paperwork to go with it. I used to carry asbestos and a lot of the time it was tipped on the same face as all the rest of the rubbish.
If you have space and the will to do it you could bury it in your garden.

Have space but not the will...

[basherX]

Thanks for the replies- just idle curiosity on my part. Funny that there's all the hysteria around removal and wrapping etc and then the other end of the disposal chain seems much more orthodox.

[basherX]

SAB888 said:

Try googling Asbestosis.

Done that. Care taken. Probably the only time in my life that I've spent so much in the morning only to dump it all later in the day.

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ChemicalChaos said:

For the love of god, do not do it on the cheap with crappy PPE!

£60 buys a high quality fitted rubber respirator with multiuse changeable cartidges, as used by the professionals. Dads company occasionally has to deal with asbestos contaminated buildings so he has one. I've used it a few times when sanding carbon fibre and they really do make a difference compared to a normal paper mask

Also don't forget to bag up your overalls and goggles when you've finished, and dispose of them with the asbestos

No crappy paper masks here. What's the saying? Something like if you have cheap lungs use a cheap mask? Anyway I think I've done it properly. And all the gear is double bagged and will go with the second dump run