[Frameworks] Storing E-6 and D-19

[Kevin Timmins]

Thanks Scott! 

> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:15:12 -0400
> From: kludge at panix.com
> To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Storing E-6 and D-19
> 
> The B&W is not too bad.
> 
> The stop bath can be mixed with the developer and you can verify that it's
> fairly pH neutral.  This can be dumped down most drains safely.  You can drink
> it if you want, but the sulfite makes it taste like rotten eggs.
> 
> The fixer is worth money.  It's toxic because it's full of silver, and silver
> is worth more than $30/oz. right now.  Don't discard it, sell it.
> 
> Clearing bath is just sulfite, it can be dumped down the drain.
> 
> The bleach is a real problem, and how much of a problem it is depends on
> what kind of bleach it is.  There are at least three bleach chemistries
> historically and the nastiest of the three (ferricyanide, which really isn't
> as nasty as it sounds) is mostly gone now.   Again, though, as it becomes
> exhausted, it becomes full of valuable silver.
> 
> I live in Virginia on the edge of the Chesapeake watershed and so we have a
> whole lot of additional regulations about chemical disposal, but talking to
> the city waste water guys, they don't mind anything but the fixer and bleach,
> and they are okay even with those if they are diluted sufficiently.
> 
> Color processes vary a lot on what is in them, but again Kodak will send you
> a nifty little brochure on chemical disposal courtesy of the nice people in
> department 412-L.
> --scott
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