The public needs help in identifying what is and isn’t asbestos.
Camera IconThe public needs help in identifying what is and isn’t asbestos. Credit: Supplied/Supplied

Need help idenitfying asbestos

Harry Parker, MidlandEastern Reporter

ARTICLES are published on the dangers of asbestos, a danger of which we are all well aware.

But asbestos has been largely replaced with fibro cement. I do not (and I suspect that most people do not) know how to tell which is which.

Could the media please tell us how to distinguish which is harmful, and which is not?

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