On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Morgan Olsson wrote:

> A friend at a german university told that they were not allowd to let
> acetone out in the drain, because it will kill too much cleaning microbes
> at the drain refinement plant (i donīt know the right word), but alcohol
> was OK.
> 
> When he was in Sweden he was allowed to let acetone out, but not alcohol,
> for the same reason.
> 
> Actually neither is good in too high concentrations of course, but it is
> sometimes fun to study regualtions ;)

Just a wild guess here: Sweden has pretty tough Alcohool regulations, and
Germany not, no ? ;) So Swedish purification plant bacteria are not
supposed to break the law and get happy so easy. Hehehe. 

Peter