what do they do with the used hypo solution?Do they sell it?if not what do they do.please send me the details through email.i am planning to establish a recycling plant of hypo solution. thanking you.

-- prasad varma (i_warma@yahoo.co.in), February 19, 2002

Answers

Most people just pour it down the drain. Commercial labs are often required by law to remove the silver. I remove the silver before I dispose of the hypo.

-- Ed Buffaloe (edb@unblinkingeye.com), February 19, 2002.

Ed, what do you do with the silver? Just curious.

-- Ryuji Suzuki (rsuzuki@rs.cncdsl.com), February 19, 2002.

Like Ed says, alot of people recycle their silver. If you have a good amount, send it to a smelter or a jeweler to melt it into a useable clump... and make something out of it.

-- Scott Walton (walton@ll.mit.edu), February 20, 2002.

A little known historical fact here. The Lone Ranger was an amateur photographer... that is where he got the silver for his bullets.

-- Dan Smith (shooter@brigham.net), February 20, 2002.

That's nothing compared to what another amateur I heard about did. He carved a complete set of solid silver cutlery (72 pcs) out of the silver he gathered by recycling his used fixer ! :-)

-- George Papantoniou (papanton@hol.gr), February 21, 2002.

I take the silver to a local silversmith and $ell it.

-- Ed Buffaloe (edb@unblinkingeye.com), February 22, 2002.

Ed tell me more on how to remove it from the fixer?

will you? or it's a trade secreat?

:) middle

-- middle (middlegray@yahoo.com), February 26, 2002.