More asbestos debris identified along Florida highway

Twelve one more sites have been identified by a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as contrast certain for asbestos along a Sebring Parkway. Large piles of asbestos-concrete pipes have also been found during a Highlands County Landfill. There were 76 fragments analyzed from 14 locations which were discovered to be non-friable asbestos-containing material. Most of these fragments were sitting out in a open upon a ground, together with a little which were found in a bushes near a Boy Scout Lodge.

Asbestos is a known carcinogen which was very widely used in construction materials as well as as insulation until a 1970s. Asbestos exposure can cause a accumulation of critical illnesses, together with lung cancer, asbestosis as well as mesothelioma, a singular form of cancer.

There are strict environmental laws in place for a doing as well as ordering of asbestos in sequence to strengthen a illness as well as safety of workers as well as a community. The FDEP as well as a county need dangerous element to be double wrapped in special bags for disposal. There contingency be annals when a element is dumped, as well as a FDEP contingency be notified before removal begins. Landfill receipts show no annals of asbestos transfer done by a county despite a discovery of large, open piles of asbestos waste there.

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