Asbestos as "recovered fines" can also be sold in soil mixes. Why not give "structural soil" a go? It's just rocks, biochar, compost, and some minerals. No recovered wood pieces.

Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone · 9 months ago

Asbestos as "recovered fines" can also be sold in soil mixes. Why not give "structural soil" a go? It's just rocks, biochar, compost, and some minerals. No recovered wood pieces.

Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 9 months ago

Had to go digging to find what OP was talking about

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/29/asbestos-nsw-findings-watchdog-epa-contaminated-soil-childcare-centres-schools-parks

It’s not gardening soil, it’s “clean” fill for big landscaping projects, you wouldn’t replace it with rocks + biochar…

Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone · 9 months ago

There was a radio piece saying that potting mix and cheap “soil mixes” may also be affected. The same thing people put into raised garden beds as cheap soil is wood-based/bark-based.

Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone · 6 months ago

https://lemm.ee/post/33335568

Asbestos now found in sold soil. Whoops.

Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · 6 months ago

It’s the same type of soil I was talking about, not gardening soil…

And holy crap, you really don’t let go, do you?

Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone · 6 months ago

Yes mate, we always get our clean fill from “garden stores”.

Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · 6 months ago

The soil fill, made from recycled residues from construction and demolition sites, is known as “recovered fines”.

Soil

Fill

It’s in the article

Goodbye