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To: Zardoz who wrote (81357)2/1/2002 7:46:39 AM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) of 116754
 
You are looking at only one side of the Cyanide debate, the side of the environmental extremist groups! There are two sides to the issue, many of these environmental groups goals are to stop all commercial activity in "natural areas" at any cost not to reduce cyanide use, see my posts about planting of zoo lynx fur this thread.

Do you as quickly decry the total use of road salts?
US EPA
"Production of the most common cyanides was roughly 5 billion pounds a year in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The major cyanide releases to water are discharges from metal finishing industries, iron and steel mills, and organic chemical industries. Releases to soil appear to be primarily from disposal of cyanide wastes in landfills and the use of cyanide-containing road salts. Chlorination treatment of some wastewaters can produce cyanides as a by-product."

What happens to Cyanide when it is released to the environment?

Cyanides are generally not persistent when released to water or soil, and are not likely to accumulate in aquatic life. They rapidly evaporate and are broken down by microbes. They do not bind to soils and may leach to ground water.

epa.gov

Drinking water is generally considered "safe", but far more people die each year from the improper use of drinking water(drowning) than have died from cyanide in the last 100 years. There is a possible safe or unsafe use of anything. You need to ask yourself a question, "Why doesn't ANY environmental activist group acknowledge the existence of naturally occurring Cyanides or the maximum naturally occurring level?"
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