Originally Posted by
BFisher
[MENTION=458880]Duragrouch[/MENTION] where do the paper towels go? Also, if you get grease or oil on your hands, how do you clean them without causing pollution?
I'm very much in favor of environmental conservation, but honestly this thread is kind of ridiculous.
I ride a bike. Steel production is environmentally hazardous. Steel fabrication is hazardous. Chrome plating is extremely hazardous. Tire manufacturing is hazardous. Tire use causes pollution.
Aluminum production is hazardous. Glue production is toxic.
I wear shoes. Shoe manufacturing is hazardous. Shoe disposal is hazardous.
Home heating is toxic. Home cooling is toxic. Farming is hazardous.
You can go on and on. And frankly, how many well-meaning environmentally conscious people hop on a jet fuel-burning aluminum tube with wings to go ride a bike in some fancy locale?
Not picking on anyone here, and my tone is far from antagonistic. But if we think our "clean" handling of WD40 is making one single difference in the scope of things, we are mistaken.
This thread didn’t go in this direction over spraying a bit of WD-40 on a chain. It was about polluting ground water gratuitously with petroleum solvents out of pure laziness and convenience. Now, if you were the only one doing ir and could prevent everyone else from doing it, then you’d be right — your own actions wouldn’t have any impact. But that’s not how it works. Or do you believe that just because a paper mill somewhere sometimes used to discharge mercury into the river that it’s OK for you
and everyone else to dump your engine oil into the storm sewer?