Recently properly disposed of some
asbestos whips for about $500.00, or was it $800.00 I forget. Got it done
thru the Trucking Dpt. with their
Safety Clean vendor pushing for work instead of
thru my lighting dpt. sources that I don’t really have any of other than for
metal halide lamp recycling that I would have to investigate.
Got like a 2.5gal. container for that price and only had a week to fill it up with a few cable whips on some 5Kw Fresnels bought used for prop lights which shipped with the
asbestos. Nowhere near filled the container in only a few of the studio Fresnels came with
asbestos whips,
lens pads or other lamp
base insulator pads or lamp sockets in need of removal.
Seems licences had to be bought for the removal of
asbestos - even if I was doing it and the disposal company was only taking away the sealed container. You cannot just get a bucket to fill up and dispose with once filled. And that licence only lasted a week. So unlike the lined 55gal. drum of
metal halide lamps I fill up and
call for disposal of for $1,000.00 per drum, I only had a week to work with this small container.
The container was the issue, in getting a container that the disposal company could haul away and dispose of. It could only be procured of if there was a permit lasting a week, otherwise I will have gladly filled it up over time. Already have another bag filling up of
asbestos wiring since than that could have been added to the container.
That’s the problem, perhaps you buy something off E-Bay and it comes with
asbestos wiring... normally I ask if buying something the supplier cut the
whip and all wiring to the
fixture and they dispose of it, in this case I didn’t buy the lights and was now as with all else that find the
asbestos stuck with the cost and life/
safety hazzards of now my problem, I have to deal with it. A $40.00 light just cost you over $500.00 just to dispose of it beyond costs of guys in white suits coming out to deal with it if wanting really proper disposal.
Ibid on the yes you can atmosphere test a place for how much
asbestos is in the air, but I still worry about what’s flaked off over the years that some techie rushing to a lighting position will raise in the dust of the
catwalk or corners of the
stage floor which such a test of stagnant air is useless for detection of. I worry most about the flakes already flaked off in the environment over any
fixture whip when cut and disposed of quickly especially if moistened before cutting and moving into a sealed bag done - including the
plug.
Pile up perhaps a few sealed bags sufficient to fill a container than get the disposal? A 2.5gal. Container might dispose of one
Fresnel. And in cutting
asbestos, that’s a management thing in disposal of in determining what the local policy is and in doing so themselves.
Rules about
asbestos are there for a reason and you won’t know of a problem for like ten years after exposure. How to get rid of it is the main problem.
