NoOneKnows
Specialist
- Sep 12, 2018
- 323
Does anyone know how to safely dispose of 1 kilogram of SN ? I might not use it because it got clumpy, but I cant just throw it in the garbage bin ? Thank you
According to some people on reddit, dissolving it down a drain would be fine. I would add the condition of being connected to a municipal sewage system. The MSDS says: "it has a low potential to affect aquatic organisms, secondary waste treatment micro organisms, and the growth of some plants." But I think dumping it outside would be unneighborly.
labchem.com/tools/msds/msds/75547.pdf
labchem.com/tools/msds/msds/75547.pdf
That's a good consideration, really responsible. I hadn't thought about it.
NoOneKnows
Specialist
- Sep 12, 2018
- 323
thanks for the information. Do you think it can be flushed into the toilet as well? cuz its a rather large amount, it would be quicker, I dont wanna breath it in. Thanks
oh btw. that PDF text you posted, its for Sodium Nitrate., not Nitrite
Sorry, I didn't see this earlier
I know I searched for the MSDS for sodium nitrite, but a search result for nitrate came up first and I wasn't paying enough attention. So, take the following with a grain of sodium I guess.
Apparently, the SDS is the new MSDS and it contains descriptions that make the actual impact of accidental release unclear. The accidental environmental release for sodium nitrite is largely similar to table salt, and much less caution than sodium cyanide. Even the different MSDS' use widely varying terms. And it's not the same as the old one.
Sodium Nitrite (more extreme cleanup procedures page 3,6)
Sodium Nitrite (very not extreme cleanup page 4,5)
Sodium Cyanide (page 4,8)
The extreme one mentions compliance with federal and state and local regulations, and I am only brave enough to see that the federal limit for environmental leak is 100KG (but sodium nitrate isn't on there).
So, people who will be assumed to have experience and actual knowledge might be from:
Well, that's the best I can do. This answer sucks a bit more than the one I previously had.
Anyway, some people say you can flush it, big companies say you "should not." Oh yeah, and a point mentioned multiple times is not to dry sweep SN: that water guy from Islamabad says to submerge it in water before pouring out 10 KG of SN! I don't know anything about reacting it, so I wouldn't do that for my first route. Nitrite breaks down into nitrate, and that's not even listed on the federal hazardous list (well, as far as I could tell). And apparently it breaks down in air, but the rate at which it happens wasn't readily available, and I don't chemistry. The people in the last two URLs don't seem overly concerned, however.
I know I searched for the MSDS for sodium nitrite, but a search result for nitrate came up first and I wasn't paying enough attention. So, take the following with a grain of sodium I guess.
Apparently, the SDS is the new MSDS and it contains descriptions that make the actual impact of accidental release unclear. The accidental environmental release for sodium nitrite is largely similar to table salt, and much less caution than sodium cyanide. Even the different MSDS' use widely varying terms. And it's not the same as the old one.
Sodium Nitrite (more extreme cleanup procedures page 3,6)
Sodium Nitrite (very not extreme cleanup page 4,5)
Sodium Cyanide (page 4,8)
The extreme one mentions compliance with federal and state and local regulations, and I am only brave enough to see that the federal limit for environmental leak is 100KG (but sodium nitrate isn't on there).
So, people who will be assumed to have experience and actual knowledge might be from:
Well, that's the best I can do. This answer sucks a bit more than the one I previously had.
Anyway, some people say you can flush it, big companies say you "should not." Oh yeah, and a point mentioned multiple times is not to dry sweep SN: that water guy from Islamabad says to submerge it in water before pouring out 10 KG of SN! I don't know anything about reacting it, so I wouldn't do that for my first route. Nitrite breaks down into nitrate, and that's not even listed on the federal hazardous list (well, as far as I could tell). And apparently it breaks down in air, but the rate at which it happens wasn't readily available, and I don't chemistry. The people in the last two URLs don't seem overly concerned, however.
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Lara Francis
Enlightened
- Jun 30, 2018
- 1,627
Hi.
My friend took my SN when she realized i had it.she took it to a pharmacy where it was disposed of as pharmacitical waste.(no questions asked and even if they did,you could say u were going to cure ur own meat but found it too much hassle.)
The instructions with it said not to flush it down the drain or toliet due to environmental contamination.
I would be frightened of killing other people by mistake but this could be me being paranoid.
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