This one is kind of interesting- I guess it depends on the environmental
regulations where you are based.

Here in California, the controls on the use of carcinogenic chemicals has
actually made the recovery of silver from film, including x-rays, cost
prohibitive.  Required recovery of exhaust fumes, reprocessing of chemicals
following the recovery operation and disposal of the substrate medium,
along with the effort (labor) to perform the work reduces the value to a
point that it is unprofitable.

I'd guess the individuals stealing these x-rays are selling them to
commercial processors who perform the recovery, so they don't have to be
concerned with any of this... but the firms performing the work may.

Larry
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Dube, Yanick
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I thought I'd share these two stories which apparently broke within a day
> of each other, about stolen x-rays and plans to extract silver out of them.
>
>
> http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1142076--toronto-man-arrested-in-connection-with-allegedly-stolen-x-rays
>
> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/03/05/thieves-stealing-x-rays-for-the-silver-inside/
>
> I wonder what Ed Wood would have made out of this plot?
>
> Cheers!
> Y
>
> Yanick Dubé
>



-- 
*Lawrence J. Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972*

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