[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Its not that long Eric since they outlawed asbestos, relatively speaking, I was using it in the late seventies, although there were directives to use masks when cutting it up, don't know exactly when it was outlawed must have been early eighties

There are several types of asbestos, its what is refered to as blue asbestos thats the killer, once used as pipe lagging, and insulation in walls and ceilings, but like every thing else its a knee jerk reaction, cement asbestos is relatively safe, its still available at some builders yards, mostly corrugated sheets.
I replaced my soil pipe last week, the old one was made from cement asbestos, went to the tip and they gave me some red coloured bags to put it in,
just smashed it up with a hammer and bagged it. At the tip they just threw the bags into a container.

Retlaw.