Can the municipality require me to hire a company to demolish asbestos?

[useless]

If, however, as a private person, one has no idea what asbestos is and what the risks are, maybe it's good to be informed about it? Instead of just hearing "the municipality can't decide a damn thing, you have the law on your side! Tear it down, it's fine, I've done it 40,000 times myself!" Then perhaps you tear down, throw down any boards that break, shove the stuff in a bag, into the car, come home, hang up the jacket you wore while tearing down along with the family's other clothes, take off your DIY clothes and throw them in the washing machine with other clothes, and so on and so forth.

I think we actually agree quite a bit. As you say, it's important to be aware of the risks and act accordingly. If you do something wrong, it's wrong no matter what you're doing.

And as mentioned earlier, the thread isn't about whether to ignore all safety measures, but simply whether you need to hire a cleanup company or if you can do just as good a job on your own.

But, gently taking down a few asbestos cement boards from the facade as intact as possible doesn't actually mean you'll breathe in a single fiber more than if you were just standing and looking at the facade. It's probably a bigger risk to mow the lawn near the facade since it constantly weathers and material falls on the ground.

 

[Stuff]

I raised possible reasons why municipalities impose requirements/make recommendations on how to handle a potentially deadly substance.

Yes, there can certainly be many (good) reasons/motives for why the municipality wants to regulate this. But there are still laws and regulations that govern what the municipality CAN decide over. Municipalities are not allowed to be small dictatorships.

 

[TheGame]

Answer this: How can my asbestos-related posts not be relevant in a thread that is specifically about asbestos? Hard to take a defeat from a novice home builder who hasn't written several thousand posts?

It doesn't get any better when you start being condescending as well. Here are some more emojis for you to share

 

[Plupp 358496]

A sad thing is that soon the whole of Manhattan will die of asbestos-caused lung cancer.

 

[Demmpa]

No, there is no guarantee that one dies exactly as you write, but it depends a bit on where the fibers get lodged in the lungs, and if you're unlucky, it can - as previously written, be enough with a single exposure.

What does it look like in other countries?

Are many people getting lung cancer in, for example, the USA, Russia?

https://arbetet.se/2018/08/09/asbest-tillbaka-i-trumps-usa/
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/pWjX5V/usa-nara-forbjuda-asbest
https://www.nyteknik.se/bygg/ryskt-byggfack-sager-ja-till-asbest-6424186

 

[Dalaan]

What does it look like in other countries?

Are there many who get lung cancer in, for example, USA, Russia?

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You have part of the answer to your question in the first link you sent. According to the World Health Organization, asbestos causes about 100,000 deaths globally each year.

 

[Demmpa]

You partially have the answer to your question in the first link you sent. According to the World Health Organization, asbestos causes approximately 100,000 deaths globally each year.

In the world, we are just over 8 billion people. More precisely (right now at 23:00 on 12/22/2022) about 8,006,889,000 https://www.worldometers.info/se/

100000/8006889000=0.0000124892

 

[tttomten]

In the world, we are just over 8 billion people.
More precisely (right now 23:00 on 22/12 2022) about 8,006,889,000
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100000/8006889000=0.0000124892

A bit lower than those killed in traffic in Sweden then.
178/10512820=0.00001693

 

[Demmpa]

A bit lower than those killed in traffic in Sweden then.
178/10512820=0.00001693

And if you compare traffic deaths worldwide, it's about 1,350,000 per year,
1350000/8006889000=0.0001686048
so approximately one order of magnitude higher worldwide than in Sweden.