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Article: Turning Wallboard Out to Pasture.
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Building a 2,000-square-foot house leaves about a ton of gypsum wallboard waste from end cuts, window and door cutouts, and broken boards. In the United States, three million tons of gypsum wallboard waste is dumped in landfills each year. In addition to depleting space, microbial action can decompose gypsum to malodorous hydrogen sulfide gas, which at high enough exposures can cause irritation of the mucous linings, headache, dizziness, nausea, convulsions, coma, and death.
A study at the University of Wisconsin at Madison by soil scientist Richard Wolkowski, published in the January-February 2000 issue of Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, found ...
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