Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 10:32:18 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I visited a lead recycling plant in France. It was part of a lead
smelting operation. It was dripping sulphuric acid. They took car
batteries and mashed them up and somehow fed them back into the ore
processing chain.

https://grist.org/accountability/california-communities-are-fighting-the-
last-battery-recycling-plant-in-the-west-and-its-toxic-legacy/

The article mentions the other recycling operation that was in City of
Commerce that I knew as RSR in the '90s. Compared to it, Ecobat was high
tech. You did not get out of the truck at either place as workers in space
suits unloaded the truck. After you unloaded the trailer was cleaned out
with pressure washers.

As a bit or irony newly manufactured car batteries were a hazardous
materials load. 45,000 pounds of leaking dead batteries haphazardly piled
on pallets were not considered hazardous. The distinction is very
important if you're going from Denver to LA. hazmat loads cannot go
through Eisenhower Tunnel so you get to take the scenic route over
Loveland Pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_Pass