Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Still used in a lot of fireproof applications. Lab tables you see in chemistry and biology classrooms are a good example, most of those are made out of asbestos. Really, as long as it’s well bonded and handled appropriately, it’s perfectly safe. It’s just costly to do so, and greedy companies don’t care if their lax standards cause cancer 20 years later, so it really can’t be trusted in the hands of private businesses.

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