Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:59:57 EST From: Dionaea@aol.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg247$foo@default> Subject: RE: Silica Sand
Susan,
I don't know anything about this issue but I just ran out of sand, and need
to get some more. Could you tell me what the brand is that you are using?
Thanks a bunch.
Christoph
> I went to my local Home Depot yesterday to buy a couple of bags of
> white silica sandblasting sand for potting up a bunch of carnivorous
> plants, and was told that Home Depot no longer carries the stuff, as it
> causes cancer! I know, of course, that the stuff is dangerous when one
> is sandblasting with it, and that if you're dumb enough not to use
> proper protection when blasting, it will get into your lungs and
> certainly mess you up big time. But many things are dangerous if used
> incorrectly! And ALL sand is silica in it... the white stuff is just more
> pure. So shall they eliminate play sand, too, as dangerous?
>
> I started to panic anyway, wondering what I will use to pot my cp's if
> silica sand disappears off the market, but fortunately I found the same
> brand of sand at a local lumber store. I asked them if they'd heard
> anything about it being banned, and they said no, that probably Home
> Depot just doesn't want to carry it. I guess it's one more result of our
> litigious society!
>
> Anyone else know anything about this?
>
>
> Susan Farrington
> Missouri Botanical Garden
> P.O. Box 299
> St. Louis MO 63166-0299
> susan.farrington@mobot.org
> (314)577-9402
>
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