Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Adam Seychell <a_seychell@...> 
wrote:
>
> Len Warner wrote:
> > 
> 
> > Do not use anything which looks like a food container
> > (and especially a soft drink bottle) particularly if you
> > expect small children to be around and even if you don't ;-)
> 
> And thats why you label your containers, with poison signs.
> 
> > I would recommend neutralizing your effluent with a small
> > excess of garden lime and immobilizing the precipitate
> > by the addition of a little cement. ...
> 
> Yes, if end goal of the OP was to ditch the etchant, then I'd agree 
> completely. "pcb.easy" seemed to be asking how to collect and store 
Cu(OH)2.
>
Gentlemen,

My goal is not to collect and store Cu(OH)2, but rather reduce the 
waste by removing the excess water. The reason for wanting to reduce 
the waste is so that I do not have a large volume of chemicals on 
hand, and do not have to make frequent trips to the hazard waste 
facility. I can not see how taking a small amount of copper hydroxide 
and contaminating a chunk of concrete and having it buried in a 
landfill is benifical. Have you seen how they crush and grind 
everything that goes into a landfill. Rather I would like to take it 
to a hazard waste facility and have it properly dealt with. If I was 
willing to have the copper dumped into a landfill and have it 
eventually work it way into the water supply, I might as well pour it 
down the drain. Once again thanks to everyone for the help.