just any landfill? not a special toxic waste landfill? ORLY?
asbestos is a class A carcinogen, and is treated as a hazardous substance just like PCB's, Dioxins and medical waste. a little nuclear hyperbole should be understandable now and again as merely for the lulz. asbestos is prohibited in any use where it might conceivably be released into the air (note the Placer County Asbestos Scare of 2009) including natural sources (???!!??!!) like weathering rock formations (Anthropogenic Global Asbestos Release) or "contaminated" vermiculite in running tracks or baseball diamonds (??!!??)
asbestos is prohibited from use in all building materials except those used solely in industry under close supervision, kiln and furnace walls (the industrial kind, not your HVAC unit) and certain heat resistant ceramics. thats it. asbestos cannot be mined anywhere in the US so we import this rock from sout africa canada and other countries where common sense still rules. yes, we buy rocks,, which are abundant and reliable here in the US because the politicians think it's too dangerous for us, but not for canada.
spray on fireproofing is NOT easily dislodged. if it were easy to dislodge it would not be a fire retardant it would be a finger retardant. the stuff is supposed to set up and harden around the girders and trusses, if it crumbles at a touch it was smeared on with a putty knife and chewing gum. the stuff is supposed to stay on the beams not fall into the air conditioning ducts.
despite being highly pedantic, your statement makes no sense.
No it doesn't have to be a toxic waste landfill. Just one with the license to store it, which is pretty eas to get. They have to keep a lot of records of it, but the ACM(Asbestos Containing Material) is literally wrapped in plastic, dumped in a trench, and covered with dirt. That is it.
Where I live, we use the Dallas Landfill. All other refuse goes there as well.
It is prohibited in use in new products. Mastics, joint compounds, drywall, brakes, shingles, floor tiles, all can still be made with asbestos. They can even be installed(depending on local ordinance). Federally it has to be installed by a licensed asbestos worker. It is illegal to disturb the asbestos, hence me having a job.
I am in the asbestos industry. I work around it, help manage projects to remove it, I perform air monitoring for it during abatements, I look for it under a microscope, I inspect for it in buildngs. I'm licensed to do all of these in my state.
Asbestos was banned until 1991, but then it was unbanned. They did manage to shut down mining for it here. Yes, we import it still to this day.
Here's how it works:
We import products, like drywall or mastic. It contains asbestos.
It gets installed. That isn't illegal. The problem is lawsuits due to exposure from disturbance or natural decay of the product.
Lawsuits have made asbestos not worth the trouble. So we don't make products with it. We don't like to install it, but if it gets disturbed improperly, well you're exposing people. And exposing people is bad.
You have to understand, that mastic in the closet or that stack of drywall over there? The person installing it doesn't know it contains asbestos. The people buying it doesn't know it contains asbestos. Products are tested
after installation when a renovation to a public building or demolition of a structure occurs, or a state inspector gets a hair up his ass. No one actually knows it contains asbestos untill we sample it and take it to a lab.
We have limits on how much exposure is allowed, and remember: There is no safe limit of exposure to asbestos.
That limit is .01f/cc. It doesn't sound like a lot, but you have to understand, that equals hundreds of thousands of fibers in a normal sized room that your body cannot expell.
Contaminated Vermiculite: Google Libby, Montana. Vermiculite is a nice substance, but the problem is that tons of it were mined around asbestos. So basically, it has asbestos all over it. As a rule of thumb, you treat all vermiculite as ACM.
Why do i say fire proofing is easily dislodged? They hand scrape it off to remove it. A jet plowing into it would dislodge that asbestos as easily as getting into Snooki's panties. It is a friable material. That means it can be crumbled or pulverized to dust with hand pressure.
I wrote all that while stoned, and actually getting to talk about something I know about outside of work made me excited. Sorry for rambling. My posts aren't typically like that.
I get too passionate when I talk about asbestos. When I enter any structure at any time, I still always look for the possible ACBMs. No more asbestos talk for me I think lol.
Because I was there and actually SAW the MASSIVE damage on the South side of Bldg. 7. There have been pictures of it and NUMEROUS eyewitness accounts by firefighters who saw it with their own eyes. There were fires which burned unchecked inside that building for upwards of 6-7 hours! The damage to the South face, which was caused by a falling chunk of one of the towers, extended for nearly 20 stories! 
