[Alt-photo] Re: Was Sulfamic now VDB and pt/pd gold leaf

[Jack Fulton]

Oh no Andy....ONE dozen (12 pounds) . . .
When recycling in a lab quite a bit of silver is deposited and  
particularly if
doing color for all the silver is removed from the film and/or paper.
On May 11, 2013, at 6:08 AM, andy schmitt wrote:

> Several DOZEN pounds... ??
> Nice.....
>
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> This is the once-familiar method of recycling the silver from fixer.  
> Kodak
> provided a 5 gallon bucket where the used fixer was poured into the
> container filled with steel wool. The silver replaced the iron of  
> the wool
> and an oxide sludge remained. It was then sent to Kodak for  
> recycling and
> payment returned. I then turned to an X-Rite electrolytic cathode/ 
> anode unit
> where we'd flake off the silver and send it for return as 99%  
> silver. The
> school was not then cognizant of the need for recycling waste and I  
> paid for
> the unit in order to institute eco principles.
> After paying for the unit with cash from recovered silver I retain  
> some
> dozen pounds. The school ultimately hired a company to pick up the  
> exhausted
> chemistry, which is how it is all handled now.
> Cheers
> Jack
>
>
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