• Question: When you find a load of drums of unknown contents in a field what do you do?

    Asked by alexiareixach to Stuart on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Stuart Atkinson

      Stuart Atkinson answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Walk away!…then go back, take some pics and walk away again! Then go back and take samples. The chemists in our lab can tests for all sorts of chemicals so we know what’s in the drums and how to treat it. Then we have to contain the drums eg pump them into other drums, which is often the most dangerous part.

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