Yep, let mother nature do her thing, which she does well
Comment on Can I throw away H2S-laced bentonite?
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
In Russia? Just dump it dude. Hazmat department would screw you up unless you are in one of the capitals or in science-city, and now probably even there.
Bentonite with sulfides is more or less naturally occurring stuff. Sulfur is probably well chemically bonded with whatever metal ions were there by now, it will stink but not nearly as much as original stuff; clay also has lots of surface for adsorption. You did a sane thing. Now dump it - just not in “indoors” trash container, drive it off.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
jennytopinka@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Sorry for the late reply. Don’t worry, I understand very well how contacting my government is going to go.
I live in Moscow, and have neither a car nor a license and nobody to help me with this, so the logistics of just dumping it off is complicated. I can’t just dump a small bucket of a suspicious-looking smelly substance on the ground in the nearby forest where it’ll be found, it’ll get trivially traced back by DNA, and every corner here has a camera. It gets worse if I try to bring a shovel.
I’ve once crossed Bitsevsky Forest, which is a dense forest without infrastructure on foot across the thick part in the middle of winter and that experience have taught me there’s always a good chance at least one other person is nearby.
I have reasons not to trust my nose anymore, so if it’s attention-attracting kind of smelly, I can’t ride public trains into the sticks and do it there.
My options as I see it are to dump it into an urban creek (get spotted doing something suspicious) or to bury it on a dacha, a gardening allotment loosely connected to me or just dump it into an ancient pit latrine located on it. Is that going to poison groundwater and local wells?
What’s wrong with dumping it bit by bit into trash, coating it in a cat litter bentonite and making it look like a regular kitty litter?
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
If it is stinky, it would get stinkier in an indoors bin once food waste gets in and starts fermenting and heating up; those rooms are not well ventilated usually.
That is, I’m assuming you have many bucketfuls of the stuff.
Dacha is perfect solution imo. Latrines have same stuff in them naturally, you won’t make a difference. H2S is natural product of biowaste decay in anaerobic condition, and it is itself biodegradable. If you own the soil, you could also use it as soil modifier if you know what you are doing. Or pile it up, rains and bacteria will deal with soon.