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Mulch believed to be contaminated with asbestos found at a Melbourne playground (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks like it's not just Sydney that has a problem with lazy disposal of building rubble. Only buy from reputable suppliers peeps.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of asbestos out there. They can't really be expected to test literally everything for asbestos imho.

This is probably yet another case caused by the dodgy building industry

When I bought my house, I asked about asbestos, and the building inspector missed a lot of it, and the real estate agent claimed there was none. There was lots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

but timber with nails in it? C'mon, thats not even giving the bare minimum of effort.