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We had similar thing in our country and it was PCBs

• junon 3y ago
  Printed circuit boards?
  • chongli 3y ago
    Polychlorinated Biphenyls [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
    • picadores 3y ago
      Horray for industry deregulation..
      • MrBuddyCasino 3y ago
        > their production was banned for most uses by United States federal law on January 1, 1978, under Title 15 U.S.Code 2605(e) What exactly are you talking about?
        • delfinom 3y ago
          PCBs are still ever present because they were banned but not removed from use. The result is over the decades since the ban, there were spills and other contamination. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323099/
          • MrBuddyCasino 3y ago
            Removing "flame-retardants, plasticizers, paints, caulking compounds, sealants" from buildings seems overreach, you'd probably have to raze them. They didn't even do that for asbestos or lead paint.
            • delfinom 3y ago
              Yea but it wasn't just in buildings. They were for example, part of coolants used in transformers. When those fail they leak and contaminate.
              • DiggyJohnson 3y ago
                Sure, but the same argument applies.