A few years ago, I attended a recycling workshop with information given that
substitutes made with natural products,ie as  Hemo-de contains, are very
difficult
to recycle. This seemed to occur because the concentrations and percentages
of the
natural ingredients varied and were not stable as in the xylenes.  What is the
latest information concerning this?  Has the technology refined enough to
compensate for this?   sharon osborn

Verrucous@aol.com wrote:

> Histonians,
>     Our Cyto lab has been using HemoDe for over 10 years. Last year we
> purchased a still to recycle the Cytology HemoDe and the Histology
>xylene. The
> still works well, but the Cyto aids complain that the smell of HemoDe is much
> stronger when it's reclaimed than when purchased.
>    I've talked to the maker of the still, and they think it could be that
> we're distilling off an ingredient that keeps the smell down.
>    I talked to the make of HemoDe and they say that any ingredient left
>behind
> through distillation would only make the smell stronger.
>     Any ideas?
>
> Bruce Gapinski HT(ASCP)