You can take the sludge once it gets to be a significant amount say over a pound and sell it to Rio Grande, or David H. Fell or even Hauser and Miller. They buy excactly that kind of sludge from jewelers who trap the sludge with a drain gizmo. That way you can get money instead of paying it out. --- On Sat, 11/28/09, John Bower <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: John Bower <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: "Green" Developer To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 3:22 PM I have a septic tank and am mostly concerned with the silver in my fixer poisoning the system. The county recycling station will take fixer, but they will charge me $8 per gallon to do so. I don't generate enough to get a silver recovery unit, so I put my spent fixer in a tray outdoors where it won't collect rain, and won't be bothered by critters, and I let the water evaporate. One of these days, I'll stir up the sludge, and give my recycling center $8 worth. -- John Bower, an Indiana Artisan http://www.studioindiana.com/ On Nov 28, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Ralph W. Lambrecht wrote: > Jean > > If neither your town nor county take waste chemicals, ask them what they > think you should do with them. Pour them down the drain, so they end up in > their water treatment plant? Hard to believe, they are that short-sighted in > this day and age. Seriously, ask city hall. They must have a way to deal with > the disposal of legal chemicals. > > > > > > Regards > > > > Ralph W. Lambrecht > > http://www.darkroomagic.com > > > This electronic message contains information that is confidential, legally > privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. This information is > intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, printing or any other use of, or any action in reliance on, the > contents of this electronic message is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify the sender and destroy > the original message immediately. > > P don't print this e-mail unless you really have to > > > > > > > On Nov 28, 2009, at 21:19, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ralph W. Lambrecht wrote: >> | Is that really the question? Or shouldn't it be: Why dump any >> | developer down the drain? Why not collect all photographic chemicals >> | and give them to the waste management centers in town. >> | >> My town has no waste management centers. My county does, but they will >> not take chemicals (whatever they mean by that; I know they will not >> take my old bottle of glycin that oxidized to the point I could not use >> it). They will take paint, bleach, and what are recognized as household >> chemicals. I forget if they take bug spray. >> >> - -- >> ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. >> ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. >> ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org >> ~ ^^-^^ 15:15:01 up 21 days, 21:49, 3 users, load average: 4.33, 4.50, 4.52 >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iD8DBQFLEYXTPtu2XpovyZoRAsxXAKCgqZo9X5atYgFEymwTmzOAFZkAoQCgpz30 >> iSjEbukTJMf0ylrw6qXEJ2I= >> =Zjep >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> ============================================================================================================= >> To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your >> account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you >> subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.