There has been a request by the staff to not dump your absorbant in the trash cans. This is overweighing the bags,they split open,and dump it everywhere.
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There has been a request by the staff to not dump your absorbant in the trash cans. This is overweighing the bags,they split open,and dump it everywhere.
Last edited by Kelly Jessop; 11-01-2009 at 04:53 PM.
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Waow... 4 hours later and still no comment..??
I guess some are feeling the heat.
Isn't the absorbant made to be 'recycled'? If not there is a market for it as we are told or pulled by the ear to stop pluting around.
Come on RB divers, put that extra effort and go trow it where it should be.
(I'm sure not all RB divers are not eco-friend)
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So where are we supposed to put it?
Brian
A trash bag in your car / truck?
Take it home, let those trash dude handle it
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I don't think it is an issue of polluting,but the weight of it. I know what I feel like when a trash bag of cats litter splits open a few feet from the trash dumpster,it becomes a timely job to clean up. Don't shoot the messanger,I am just passing along a request. These are the same people who put up with cave divers who commence a dive after the posted time,and they have to stay overtime to allow the people to leave,without a gripe on their part...so is it too much to help out?
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I am not a chemist, but I have been told old sorb eventually becomes plain limestone, once the reaction is complete. One problem is that until it does, it is very caustic.
Surely there is some way to speed the reaction, then just dump the limestone into a landfill?
No one is 'shooting the messenger' here. I'm simply asking for an alternative solution. I will admit that it's rare that I have cause to dump a scrubber while out diving, but it does happen. I will happily put my spent sorb wherever the Peacock folks (or any other park for that matter) want me to, but they have to tell me where that is.
Maybe the solution is heavier gauge trash bags, or a 'sorb only' container...
Brian
Peacock must have a dumpster near the office, can we use that?
Another solution that seems obvious enough to me....keep a trash bag in your vehicle and should the need arise to dump the sorb, bring it back home with ya and put it in your trash.
Like the old pack packers saying "if you can pack it in, you can pack it out".
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
Yeah, I'm thinking the "i pack it in, i pack it out" is the best plan.
In the bigger picture, it would be great to have someone who knows give us some suggestions for the "greenest" disposal methods (other uses, etc).
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