[pure-silver] Re: disposing of developer and fixer in rural areas
- From: "Mike Kirwan" <mkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:00:37 -0700
At the community college where I worked about 10 years ago they cut out
their silver recovery program, and one of the chemistry prof?s recommended
dropping some wire wool into the used fixer. This attracted the silver irons
and after about a month it was removed and the small and very black ball of
wire wool was taken for disposal. The remaining fixer was mixed with water
and used to top up flowers in a vase which everyone swore blind it kept the
flowers fresher longer.
Not sure about the last use, could be an old wives tale, but I did read an
article in the old and long discontinued Darkroom magazine that one of the
chemists on staff recommended the wire wool technique.
Mike
From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Hall
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:16 PM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: disposing of developer and fixer in rural areas
Here is an email to Jon Nanain, who sells inexpensive recovery device
thingies.
silvermagnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You can search apug for the reference, there are others much more expensive.
Robert Hall
www.RobertHall.com
www.RobertHall.com/workshops
www.facebook.com/robert.g.hall
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas
<octabod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/10/2012, at 21:07, shannon Stoney wrote:
> No, Kodak just says you shouldn't do it. I assumed it was b/c photographic
chemicals could mess up the septic system, or contaminate the soil.
Soil contamination will be a minor worry as it will be very localized. But
if it will reach freshwater the stuff comes to a mess.
I feel better, to hell with photography, art, women, and all
E. Weston, 1924
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