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I'm throwing out a lot of old packaging materials and was advised by online AI that gasoline and/or acetone was a great solvent for urethane foam!

I happened to have old gasoline I needed to dispose of on-hand, so it was serendipitous.

I tore up the foam, put it in a large cement mixing bin, and poured the old gas over it. My plan was to melt the urethane down into sludge, let the old gasoline evaporate, and then have far less volume to get rid of.

Well, it doesn't work. You end up with gasoline soaked sponges.

Protip: always test with a small amount first. Of course, I did not do this.

I'm throwing out a lot of old packaging materials and was advised by online AI that gasoline and/or acetone was a great solvent for urethane foam! I happened to have old gasoline I needed to dispose of on-hand, so it was serendipitous. I tore up the foam, put it in a large cement mixing bin, and poured the old gas over it. My plan was to melt the urethane down into sludge, let the old gasoline evaporate, and then have far less volume to get rid of. Well, it doesn't work. You end up with gasoline soaked sponges. Protip: always test with a small amount first. Of course, I did not do this.

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advised by online AI

Always fact check what a chatbot tells you. Large language models like GPT-3 don't have any mechanism to determine whether what they're saying is true. Often it is, because there is a decent amount of true stuff in it's training data but that's not reliable.