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  From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@ihug.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:18:20 +1030

Re: Wiping a drive

Allan wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> 
>> Did anyone remember BHP's Whyalla Steel Works??
>> 
>> that is much hotter than a steam train fire box (and very spectacular)
>> 
>> or how bout Comalco's Boyne Island Smelter in Gladstone (QLD)??
>> 
>> though a bottle of soft drink tends to get a bit explosive with motlen 
>> aluminium.
> 
The water reacts with the aluminium and can flatten the entire factory

 

> Not as much as with molten iron/steel.
> 
> As for getting rid of Cd's. I know of at least one company in Adelaide that
> converts waste plastic into useable items (ie. plastic bags, bottles etc.
> into things like railways sleepers), there's bound to be others. The only
> thing I'm not sure of is whether the aluminium content of the cd would be
> considered too much.
> 
> Allan

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