Well, OK, except that there’s an infinitely long-lived bystander risk to not purging asbestos from all use. You could (for instance) argue that once the produc

Well, OK, except that there’s an infinitely long-lived bystander risk to not purging asbestos from all use. You could (for instance) argue that once the product exists, and is in place, it poses no further risk to anyone - this is a common suggestion but is demonstrably, dangerously false. It’s a rock, it never breaks down. Its state never changes over mortal timescales. Eventually a building, or a rocket, or a train will be refurbished or scrapped - and when that happens people in the area are at no less risk than they ever were.