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Burning Plastic Pipe

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Uploaded by on Feb 24, 2008

This video demonstrates what happens when plastic pipe, in this case High-Density-Polyethylene (HDPE) pipe, is exposed to a grass fire. These demonstrations show two pipes - one laying on the ground and one buried. In both cases the pipe melts in hot drips. Once the buried pipe catches on fire and begins to melt, the soil above it collapses in on the pipe. The pipe can no longer transport water, the ground above it is not passable, and noxious gases are likely emitted into the environment. This happened in the 2007 California wildfires, and will happen any time plastic pipe burns.

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  • Fact the air is cleaner today than in your father's day or grandfathers day

  • This produces bad gas which ruin the atmosphere

  • Ok, so re-write a spec to require a concrete endpiece on culvert. Daramatic music. I felt the world coming to an end.

  • Likewise if I was in the Concrete industry.. why then do we use over 400 million metres of plastic drainage pipes a year if they are so bad?

  • If I were in the steel culvert industry, I'd make a video JUST LIKE THIS.

  • Three letters. RCP

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