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

submitted 1 year ago by Thornburywitch@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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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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[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whole council should be dismissed.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year 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

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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