The Cost of Free, part 3

First it was your dog (melemine), then your child (lead toys), so you built a new house to start fresh. Now you are sick and the drywall is the cause. Over the past few years, hundreds of millions of pounds of Chinese drywall were imported and put in new construction. Now many of the residents of those homes have a number of mysterious illnesses.

The story from the AP only confirms our position of why you should avoid by-product gypsum. The imported Chinese drywall was made with fly ash, also known as flue gas gypsum. Now everyone is scambling to figure out what to do with the toxic drywall.

My guess is that someone will be hired to entice farmers to let them dump the millions of pounds of poison wall board on their farms.

At Calcium Products, we have looked at recycling drywall a number of times. We have always come to the conclusion that the things that make good drywall, make for really bad soil ammendments.

Don't be fooled-things are free or cheap for a reason.!

Read the full article: AP IMPACT: Chinese drywall poses potential risks

My house has chinese drywall. I have wondered of where it is going after it gets removed. I wish they would put it on a freighter and send it back to China. I'd pay a little extra for that!

This is an awful situation that we're all stuck in the middle of. What would be an environmentally safer approach to disposing of it? Your article doesn't mention.

Thanks!

Liz,
Thanks for the comment, sending it back to China would be the best. It is very doubtful that will ever happen. Unfortunately it will likely be buried in a landfill. I wish I had a better answer. The positive out of this is hopefully people will start to pay more attention to where and how their food, fuel, fiber, and other consumer goods are produced.