Here are a few facts on how asbestos contractors must work with asbestos and on the strict guidelines they must work to when handling and removing asbestos safely:

The Jin Ling branded cigarettes were seized from a Drogheda market this August. They had already been seized in the UK and when tested were actually found to contain asbestos fibers. The cigarettes recently seized in Drogheda will also undergo testing by the Irish authorities.

On August 2nd brick-sized lumps of asbestos were accidentally brought to Stonehenge. The works are continuing on the new £27 million visitors centre.

There is a major asbestos removal project currently taking place at Greeley West High in Colorado while the Staff and pupils are on holidays. Only 50%of the work is expected to be completed this summer and the rest is planned to be completed next summer.

It took asbestos about 50 years to evolve from miracle mineral to deadly fiber. Our generation was the first to connect the lung diseases to asbestos, but how long before its heyday was it used?

Recent studies showed that more than seven million children in the UK are studying in schools with asbestos present in the structure, of which 1.2m are in London. These numbers were obtained from a Freedom of Information request and are particularly alarming.

Parents often believe that, if they read the labels on the products they buy for their children, potential harm may be avoided, but recently a non-profit organisation that functions under the US “Environmental Working Group Action Fund (EWG)”, discovered that some children’s crayons contained as much as 1% asbestos concentration.

Important news coming from Milan. According to the ANSA news agency, prison sentences up to seven years and eight were issued for 11 persons who were board members at Pirelli during the 1980s.

Between the late 80’ and early 90’s huge efforts and funds were put into removing the asbestos from these homes but in 2013 it was found that these efforts were not robust enough and traces of the fibres were found to be still very present in these homes.

‘Under Skin, In Blood’ is a 12-minute short film made by Larissa Behrendt, an Aboriginal Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, premiered in mid-June at the Sydney Film Festival, in the section called ‘Pitch Black Shorts. The film depicts the impact of asbestos mining in the community of Baryulgil. Baryulgil was a major asbestos mine between 1950’s and 1970’s and the impact…