Not The Onion

12368 readers

316 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

284

The U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industry (www.npr.org)

submitted 8 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

43 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait, there are countries where that shit is still legal?!

[–] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, India, Philippines, China and Russia come to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_and_the_law

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Reminds me, we used wire gauze with asbestos during high school in the Philippines. "Fortunately", it was a public school with not a lot of resources so the use of lab equipment are very rare.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's extremely effective and quite cheap.

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

... and super carcinogenic too.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that's not stopping many. I'm not saying it's ok to keep using it. Just giving the reason. It's the same reason most electricity in the world comes from burning coal and gas.

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Sad but true.