john
Oil is for the most part able to be eaten by bacteria. Way way way worse is to use any pesticide or weed killing crap on your lawn. Those are scary chemicals. The number one polluter of our water is from Lawn Chemicals (big business !) and from farmers (grew up on a farm, my parents went organic when organic was still largely unknown, so yes we know, hell farmers use to spread mercury on wheat (fungicide), my grandpa was one of them, anything for high yield.. )
Anyway, heavy metals and such are what create superfund sites, not "oil". Arsenic, Lead , mercury and Cadmium, etc..
That said should probably consider specific biodegradeable oil such as Rohloff oil.
Sewer systems are setup to clean and purify water, it best dump any sort of waste water down the drain.
Any oil, or refractory of, should be put into the waste engine oil recycling.
I usually clean my chain with soap and water.
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From: "gschreckchat@comcast.net"
To: eric aldinger ; Patrick wilder
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Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 7:56:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Enviro-Friendly home shop Part II
So you are saying you should dump hazardous waste on your lawn. I guess you can create your own superfund site.
Seriously, that is a incredibly poor suggestion. We spend billions to clean up issues like that and to prevent additional instances from ocurring and you advocate doing it on purpose.
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From: "eric aldinger"
Shouldn't a lawn act to filter waste water, as long as you are not doing the work in the rain? Makes your top soil contaminated, but your children's children won't be farming there anyway.
2008/3/6 Patrick wilder :
To follow up on yesterday's post:
Sounds like there are a lot of unhappy wives out there with grease stains on their $100 jeans!!
I'm not a totally tree hugger here but lately I've been thinking about the impact of my own bike waste. Questions I've been thinking about:
What happens to the waste water when I wash the rags? Is this really acceptable? Where do I dump the grime after degreasing a chain. Not to mention the countless brake pads I go through a year. Are those even recyclable? Rotors and disc brake pads, old torn up seats, I've just been thinking lately that it seems wrong for that crap to just end up in a land fill. Guess I was looking for something a bit more in terms of a discussion.
Thanks
~Patrick
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