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Nervous about disposal.
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Tony6Strings
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I pour mine down the sink. Sodium hydroxide is used as drain cleaner/unclogger. Hey who the heck is SWIM?
I agree, down the sink.
Make sure to completely evaporate off all hydrocarbon solvents before putting the remaining lye/plant solution down the drain (I use the toilet rather than the sink).
DreadedShaman
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Good to know, now I don't have to bury my old jars in the yard anymore.
blue.magic
Esteemed member
Don't worry 
I used to boil the tea for a while to evaporate off organic solvents (e.g. naphtha). This is dangerous and should be done outside or in extremely well ventilated area. Boiling bases is dangerous in itself.
So what I do now is to first neutralize the basic soup with HCl, it thickens and might have to be diluted, then I boil it and then let cool down and finally flush.
Make sure to run some tap water for a while to clean up pipes. It also helps to dilute the stuff.
If you use sodium or potassium hydroxide, these are of least concern and easily to dealt with - it is used as drain cleaner as others said.
After neutralization with HCl, NaOH turns into mere table salt.
I used to boil the tea for a while to evaporate off organic solvents (e.g. naphtha). This is dangerous and should be done outside or in extremely well ventilated area. Boiling bases is dangerous in itself.
So what I do now is to first neutralize the basic soup with HCl, it thickens and might have to be diluted, then I boil it and then let cool down and finally flush.
Make sure to run some tap water for a while to clean up pipes. It also helps to dilute the stuff.
If you use sodium or potassium hydroxide, these are of least concern and easily to dealt with - it is used as drain cleaner as others said.
After neutralization with HCl, NaOH turns into mere table salt.
DreadedShaman said:Good to know, now I don't have to bury my old jars in the yard anymore.
Think about 1000 years from now when archeologists dig up your yard which will then be a desert or old forest, and they find the remnants. Will they laugh at how primitive our methods of extraction were? Living in an age of glass and stainless when lasers and plasmas are used? Or maybe we will be able to extract telepathically?
Thrasymachus
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
Tony6Strings said:
I laughed at this one. I too kill two birds with one stone.