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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Re: Disposing of Chemicals

From: Adam Seychell <a_seychell@...>
Date: 2007-04-20

Len Warner wrote:
> >Len Warner wrote:
> > > >And thats why you label your containers, with poison signs.
> > >
> > > [snip] small children don't read - but the[y] do recognize shapes and
> > > they do investigate many things by putting them in their mouth.
> >
> >The labeling is for the sake of people who can read and interpret danger
> >signs. As for the remaining people, you simply make the substance
> >inaccessible to them. This is common sense.
>
> As would be NOT using food containers or other insecure
> household containers, if common sense were as common
> as its name implies and distributed widely enough to have
> reached your neighbourhood in quantity.
>


Secure? I remember seeing pure copper hydroxide sold at the garden store
in plastic bag inside a cardboard box. Sure it had all the regulatory
labeling signs, but secure, not. The only difference between poisons
rated packaging and non-poisons packaging is the word "poison" is often
molded into the container. Many a food container are perfectly ok for
storing chemicals such as copper hydroxide. In most cases the only
difference between food and chemical packaging is the labeling.

This is why I say its ok to store PCB hobby chemicals in suitable food
containers.

Adam