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Engineered stone will be banned in Australia in world-first decision (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yes. Because tradies and their associated business owners simply can't be fucked with using - or enforcing the use of - PPE.

They're also often dicking around trimming pieces during the final installation on site where eg bulk extraction and filtering of dust is "difficult". Not "impossible" , merely difficult, and we all know difficult costs money and time.

The industry was warned and didn't do much in particular to sort themselves out, so here we are.

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