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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Hazardous Monetary Waste
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 02:47:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 02:47:08 1985
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>   SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- California's laws against hazardous
> substances are so tough that its list of restricted substances include old
> money.
> 
>   The two tons of old United States currency that the Federal Reserve Bank
> of San Francisco shreds each day are considered hazardous waste by the state
> because of its lead and copper content.
> 
>   That is why the shredded bills have to be packed in sealed dumpsters and
> transported to dumps for highly toxic waste.  Workers with gauze masks and
> protective clothing shovel up any residue left from the shredding.
> 
> 	Guy Harris

I volunteer to save the government a lot of money.  Instead of shredding all
that old money, packing it up, and shipping it off to toxic waste dumps,
they can send it to me.  I'll figure out some way to get rid of it, free of
charge.  I'm so patriotic!
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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