Sewage on your dinner plate

This is a social post or news headline that may cause you to pause your scroll or second glance your breakfast as the headline flashes across your kitchen television.

Given that perspective, this is exactly how we should be treating asbestos-containing materials that show a statistical data point of "Less than 1%."

Let's run a hypothetical:

Imagine you're at a local restaurant, and the kitchen manager comes out and says, "Good evening, we had a small sewage loss in the kitchen while preparing your meal, but don't worry... there is only less than 1% sewage on your chicken parmigiana." 🥴🤮

Why wouldn't we treat asbestos with the same instinctive disgust?

The industry and society as a whole have changed.

There is no longer the one service company that specializes in one trade. No, every company has to be a jack-of-all-trades to ensure the PNL stays green and the owner can get that boat this year.

The insurance company has gone big corporate as they find ways to exclude asbestos from your policy, analyzing every dollar to ensure the PNL goes up with no disregard for your safety.

All this to say, contractors would rather perform asbestos abatement with no experience because EPD states that less than 1% asbestos is not considered a regulated asbestos material. But here, we took scripture out of context. EPD isn't saying just have your neighbor come remove it for a pizza and six-pack... This just means you don't have to take it to a certified landfill. Let's not forget that OSHA still kicks in, as they say ANY traces of asbestos should be removed by a professional.

The moral of the story is that contractors are willing to take risks with their teams and the homeowners to pad their pockets. The insurance company is willing to let inexperienced contractors do the work because it safeguards the PNL, and the homeowner just wants a brand-new kitchen, and ASAP!

You can do years of "under the radar "successful abatements,

But what happens when that first homeowner or technician gets sick.

The new kitchen doesn't look as good as it use to because Mom is no longer around to enjoy it.

Then people start pointing fingers and asking questions. Thats a snowball I dont want to be on the wrong side of.

What happens when you get sued and now that luxurious boat you got from the poorly perfromed abatement gets repoed by court order.

I know this sounds harsh,

but it should be, We dont do what we do because its easy or fun, We do it for for the health and safety of our workers, partnering contractors, and homeowners alike.

If you have any abatement concerns, questions or needs, feel free to call a Bruce Environmental certified technician so we can walk you through a proper abatement.... As we beg the question are you going to eat the sewage on your plate?