Now recognized as dangerous, asbestos once was widely considered a miracle material because of its fireproof qualities. It was in every product you could think of, MSU's Hansmann said.

One of the products Exterra can make with asbestos waste is nickel concentrate, which is used to manufacture EV batteries.

Michael Flores has been through a tangle with asbestos, and he ran into a loophole in state policy that could leave anyone ...

In 1971, New York City banned the use of asbestos in spray fireproofing. At that time, asbestos insulating material had only been sprayed up to the 64th floor of the World Trade Center towers.

Brittany Russell, an attorney for the couple and an associate at Weitz & Luxenberg, said that William Durbec’s $78 million ...

Fireproof, durable, and cheap, asbestos was hailed as a miracle mineral ... found in the leftover mining waste and convert the material into valuable, carbon-neutral products.

These points and the fact that it appears as silky, flexible fibres which can be woven or felted into fabrics,* or mixed with cements for fireproofing ... also used asbestos cloth for ...

The asbestos in the Renaissance Center comes from a fireproofing material called Monokote, produced by W.R. Grace & Co. In its day, it was pitched as a “fast and economical” fireproofing ...

What had begun as mostly a curiosity thousands of years prior was now turning into the material that ... of even just a bit of asbestos would make houses weather- and fireproof, make concrete ...

film sets started using one of the purest forms of asbestos on film stages—in part because it was fireproof and looked close enough to snow that it could fool the audience. The effect was widely ...

It was not until Ancient Rome that asbestos was used in its most modern, sinister application: as a building material. While the Romans continued to use asbestos in textiles—such as napkins and ...

Using a biological material like mycelium has enormous benefits, says senior author Everson Kandare. Unlike asbestos, which is still sometimes added to building materials as a fire retardant ...