WaterWaiver@aussie.zone to Australian News@aussie.zoneEnglish · 1 year agoEngineered stone will be banned in Australia in world-first decisionwww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarezero_gravitas@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYou wouldn’t generally get all federal and state governments signing on to something that is just ‘populism’. Engineered stone is more dangerous than natural stone because it contains much more silica, and so it has resulted in an acute accelerated form of silicosis: https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/why-silicosis-is-on-the-rise-and-what-to-do-about-it/24559
You wouldn’t generally get all federal and state governments signing on to something that is just ‘populism’.
Engineered stone is more dangerous than natural stone because it contains much more silica, and so it has resulted in an acute accelerated form of silicosis: https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/why-silicosis-is-on-the-rise-and-what-to-do-about-it/24559