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Title: Waste Bottle---Where does this stuff go?
Post by: baboom on December 06, 2009, 12:23:08 AM

Have you ever wondered what happens to the waste in the waste bottle?
I know I have...  :o

Title: Re: Waste Bottle---Where does this stuff go?
Post by: nj_bartel on December 06, 2009, 03:06:33 AM

A grad student I work with told me the nonhalogenated stuff gets incinerated, and the halogenated stuff gets incinerated at a higher temperature.

Title: Re: Waste Bottle---Where does this stuff go?
Post by: baboom on December 06, 2009, 03:52:33 PM

Thanks ;D! this question was bugging me for a while...