Can anyone here confirm the rumours that there's a park somewhere in Sydney that isn't covered in asbestos mulch? (aus.social)

submitted 11 months ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/sydney@aussie.zone

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Can anyone here confirm the rumours that there's a park somewhere in Sydney that isn't covered in asbestos mulch?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/more-than-30-parks-across-sydney-to-be-urgently-tested-for-asbestos-as-residents-urged-to-avoid-mulched-areas

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[-] melissabeartrix@aus.social 4 points 11 months ago

@ajsadauskas @sydney

None in the inner west currently

It's not good, and the root of the issue is the cost to remove and dispose of

Hugz & xXx

[-] SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 3 points 11 months ago

@ajsadauskas
Asbestos is everywhere.

I remember playing with small chunks of fibro asbestos brought in with fill for the school playground at primary school on the early 80s.

The park across the road had tons of fill dropped on it in the early 80s that came from a new large shopping centre site in Baulkham Hills. The small mounds were there for a few years before it was flattened. Used to walk over them get to school. There were small chunks of fibro in there from the houses they knocked down.

@sydney

[-] msdropbear42@venera.social 1 points 11 months ago

@SuperMoosie @ajsadauskas Are you ok? Do you periodically get your lungs scanned? 🤞

My childhood house [in which Dad still lives] is a timber-framed fibro-clad job that M&D had a local builder build, in the late 50s. Over the ensuing decades they did various extensions [out & up], & various incidental maintenance stuff, all of which involved handling & cutting fibro. I often wonder if/how we avoided that landmine... 🤷‍♀️

James Hardie, eh; how good! 🤦‍♀️