Disposing of One Shot Solution

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Use it with water to mix a little concrete for your patio but then how do you clean concrete mixer. I am curious too, let evaporate in air?
 
There was a long thread recently about disposal of wet tumbler solution. Maybe someone can find it?

Do like the US Govt does with nuclear waste, Build some concrete bunkers out in the desert, put the waste in steel drums (or your back yard) better yet close to a major river water source and then let is slowly leak out and create a giant toxic waste area
 
I also would like to find it because there was a member that worked for a water company that was stating that if Citric Acid was used as a cleaner, like Hornady One Shot is, then it can be dumped down the drain in your sink. The Citric Acid combines with the lead in the priming compound to form another compound that is supposed to be pretty much harmless.
He had stated that the city recommended people to use Citric Acid to clean their brass because it posed no problem for them in the waste stream.
I use Citric Acid to clean my brass in my ultra sonic cleaner and I always dump it down my sink drain then rinse it really well when I'm done. If you are using something else to clean the brass with, I got nothing for you. I don't know.
 
Better down the drain than on the ground; one reason why the sewer portion is always double the supply part of a water bill
 
Citrus acid and the like is not the problem. It is the lead remnant dumped in the water supply that is. Concrete stepping stones may be the best solution.
 
If it’s fresh material, then there’s as much diethanolamine in your shampoo you use every day as there is in the solution, and citric acid diluted in a large enough volume to temper pH a bit would be largely inert as well.

If it’s spent cleaning solution, then it contains a number of hazardous contaminants which put it into a hazard class for disposal. Location location location - in some systems, it can’t go down the sink, but could go down the toilet, in other systems, it could go down the sink, in still others it has to go to the dump.
 
tightgroup tiger said:
I also would like to find it because there was a member that worked for a water company that was stating that if Citric Acid was used as a cleaner, like Hornady One Shot is, then it can be dumped down the drain in your sink. The Citric Acid combines with the lead in the priming compound to form another compound that is supposed to be pretty much harmless.
He had stated that the city recommended people to use Citric Acid to clean their brass because it posed no problem for them in the waste stream.
I use Citric Acid to clean my brass in my ultra sonic cleaner and I always dump it down my sink drain then rinse it really well when I'm done. If you are using something else to clean the brass with, I got nothing for you. I don't know.
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Is it the cleaner or what got cleaned out of the cases that might be problematic I wonder? Dont know, seems like lead would be in there, maybe I am over thinking this. I use citric acid and Armor-All Wash and Wax in my Frankford Arsenal tumbler...it goes down the toilet.

Russellc
 
I put more lead into the earth with every shot (which by the way came from the earth) than the “hazmat” from tumbling fired cases. That said I still don’t dump it out by well water for the same reason I don’t have septic near it either.

Funny how some are so concerned about the environment to want duck hunters use a different element than lead to kill them while driving millions of cars that leak so much oil it makes a stop light a hazard for motorcycle riders after a light rain...
 
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Scariest words in the English language. "We are from the government and here to help"

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For the life of me, I don't know what is scary about folks that will tell you the legal and safe way to dispose of something that may be detrimental to the ecosystem. What's scary to me is folks that scoff at what is safe and responsible and instead just do what they want, regardless of the consequences. Kinda why our world is dealing with poor air/water quality and tons of trash in the oceans and scattered randomly over the Terra. Funny, I've seen those same irresponsible folks happy as heck to have the government say the same thing when the floods devastated our area. Lot of them with their hands out waiting for FEMA to show up. Like with shooting and hunting, there are responsible folks that reload and then there are those that shouldn't be allowed to. This thread has shown us both.
 
For the life of me, I don't know what is scary about folks that will tell you the legal and safe way to dispose of something that may be detrimental to the ecosystem.
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I think it’s over doing it that has some roll their eyes. It’s not always a when in Rome do as the Romans do but they drank from lead vessels and used lead pipes for plumbing. That said, if California could put warning labels on life itself it would read. “WARNING: This being contains elements known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.” and even give evidence to prove it. Numbs a lot of us because they don’t grade, yeah we get it everything is bad. People have died from drinking too much bottled water.

Sure, wash your hands, everyone knows that, recover and treat the water you used as hazmat. No thanks. Who knows maybe we will give the next couple generations something to worry about instead of the debt we left them.

The solution itself is non toxic so I suppose the “let it evaporate” suggestion would leave behind any solids and after a lifetime you could take the thimble size container holding all the stuff and dispose of it accordingly.
 
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I think it’s over doing it that has some roll their eyes. It’s not always a when in Rome do as the Romans do but they drank from lead vessels and used lead pipes for plumbing. That said, if California could put warning labels on life itself it would read. “WARNING: This being contains elements known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.” and even give evidence to prove it. Numbs a lot of us because they don’t grade, yeah we get it everything is bad. People have died from drinking too much bottled water.

Sure, wash your hands, everyone knows that, recover and treat the water you used as hazmat. No thanks. Who knows maybe we will give the next couple generations something to worry about instead of the debt we left them.

The solution itself is non toxic so I suppose the “let it evaporate” suggestion would leave behind any solids and after a lifetime you could take the thimble size container holding all the stuff and dispose of it accordingly.
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And how much pollution and death/injury occur to wildlife by all the improperly disposed of plastic water bottles, straws, 6 pack rings, etc etc.

California in itself is a Prop 65!
 
I just don't see the harm of dumping it down the drain. After all, its going to travel through a 4" pipe full of nasty stuff for a hundred feet or so then go into a bigger pipe also full of nasty stuff. Then after a mile or so it will go through a grinder pump with more nasty stuff and be pushed for a few more miles through even more nasty stuff to a treatment plant. I'm thinking that my gallon of tumbler water is going to be like a minimum impact on things.
 
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