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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 2020242, member: 37498&quot;]Sorry, I didn&#039;t see your post earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t find any reliable sources for the amount of silver used globally for these various applications where the silver wouldn&#039;t be readily recoverable, but it certainly happens.&nbsp; From the article you posted, there is enough silver being washed out of socks to possibly pose an environmental concern.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even if each pair of socks, or each piece of pressure treated lumber, or each electronic toy, or each tube of antibacterial ointment contains 1/10,000th of an ounce of silver, that would add up quick.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are roughly 70 million Pieces of 2&quot;x4&quot;x8&#039; pressure treated lumber produced per year, or about one for every hundred people on the planet per year.&nbsp; Let&#039;s estimate that only one in ten is treated using a compound that contains silver.&nbsp; If there&#039;s even 1/10,000th of an ounce of silver being used to treat each piece, then a very conservative estimate would be 7,000 ounces of silver per year, just to treat 2&quot;x4&quot;x8&#039; lumber, that are essentially unrecoverable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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