Here is a trick for cleaning those water bottles if your hand is too large.
Get some denture cleaner tablets, fill the bottle with warm water, add a tablet, close, shake and let sit over night. Rinse. Does a great job.
pitney
by pitney » Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:32 pm
by DukeJH » Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:48 pm
by mrchad9 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:07 am
1000Pks wrote:Dishwashing liquid and boiling hot water does the trick for me. Don't be like the mentally debilitated enviro club member who uses clorox and then dumps it all into the drain. It goes into the river, not where it should unless you like dead fish and similar. If you have BPA free bottles, of course. If not, throw all of them away.
by MoapaPk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:26 am
by MoapaPk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:46 am
1000Pks wrote:Water bottles for water, food for food containers, a slight swirl rinse and it keeps them good. The mentally debilitated will actually drink clorox, since it is diluted with water and you don't let that go to waste!
by Tonka » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:38 am
by mrchad9 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:42 am
1000Pks wrote:MoapaPk wrote:1000Pks wrote:Water bottles for water, food for food containers, a slight swirl rinse and it keeps them good. The mentally debilitated will actually drink clorox, since it is diluted with water and you don't let that go to waste!
Actually, many who are not mentally debilitated drink water purified with a few drops of sodium hypochlorite solution, rather than die from the parasites in the water. The parasites can go to the brain, making people massively paranoid (little exaggeration there for comic effect).
Amazingly enough, amount and concentration do make a difference. For example, you will die without a bit of sodium every day; but if you east 5 lbs of salt, you will also die.
Diluted sodium hypochlorite also degrades quickly from interaction with organic matter. Even more amazing, sewage often contains organic matter.
Good science, thanks. Wish you could explain this to the local enviro club!
You'll find many or most of them happily polluting, washing plenty of toxins down the storm drains. It's so bad here they have to paint the drains with logos, dead fish from dumping poison! Not that anyone would understand or even care, I would never eat anything out of the Sac river!
by chugach mtn boy » Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:17 am
MoapaPk wrote:1000Pks wrote:The mentally debilitated will actually drink clorox ...
Actually, many who are not mentally debilitated drink . . . sewage ...
1000Pks wrote:Good science . . . I would never eat anything out of the Sac river!
mrchad9 wrote: That's where I put my used motor oil. Soap and bleach is man made, and needs proper treatment, but oil came out of the ground anyway. And dumping a few gallons surely cannot affect much. BP dumped 2 1/2 supertankers worth and everyone seems fine with it.
by lcarreau » Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:43 am
by Day Hiker » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:55 am
mrchad9 wrote:1000Pks wrote:Dishwashing liquid and boiling hot water does the trick for me. Don't be like the mentally debilitated enviro club member who uses clorox and then dumps it all into the drain. It goes into the river, not where it should unless you like dead fish and similar. If you have BPA free bottles, of course. If not, throw all of them away.
Your home sewage does not go straight into a river with fish in it, clorox in it or not.
by MoapaPk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:56 am
by MoapaPk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:03 am
Day Hiker wrote:I didn't read every word in the thread, but you guys do realize that wastewater treatment plants commonly chlorinate and then DECHLORINATE the water as part of the treatment process. The water must be dechlorinated before being released.
by welle » Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:13 pm
mrchad9 wrote:1000Pks wrote:Dishwashing liquid and boiling hot water does the trick for me. Don't be like the mentally debilitated enviro club member who uses clorox and then dumps it all into the drain. It goes into the river, not where it should unless you like dead fish and similar. If you have BPA free bottles, of course. If not, throw all of them away.
Your home sewage does not go straight into a river with fish in it, clorox in it or not.
by MoapaPk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:39 pm
welle wrote:It eventually makes it into the ocean - where do you think the chlorine goes? While 1000Pks gripe with Sierra Club turned into a running joke here on SP, I agree with him on the Clorox issue, SC's endorsement of Clorox was plain wrong.
by MoapaPk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:15 pm
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