Originally Posted by
jnantz
little kids don't get a fine for making mistakes. depending on the chemistry, there is very little problem with putting developer + stop, in the drain in most places, it's mostly the pH they worry about for that and fixer was recently demoted at the federal level from being one kind waste to just "waste" ... in some rural areas there's already naturally occurring silver and other stuffs in the water, and the Ag from a little spent fixer probably doesn't even match / come close to what might already be there. silver has antibacterial / antibiotic qualities, and probably since they are mostly low level conscientious users of fixer, it's really not tilting the scales much. much of the fixer issue has to do with giant polluters like Eastman Kodak and high volume photo finishers, electroplaters, textile and other manufacturers, not hobby photographers who use 1 shot fix.
that's a different situation than the knucklehead/s I mentioned .. those things they advocated doing what they were doing wasn't very good.
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