Your Brief thoughts On Megs Solvent

statusdetailing said:
Out of all the chemicals, products, tool, etc that I work with, nothing frustrates me more than finding a good, safe, environmentally friendly tar/adhesive remover.

I love the high percentage dlimonene product that I'm using. I chose it thinking I was doing the environment and myself a favor, and in end it seems as if it too isn't really the most friendly product.

If somebody could just step in a say, "Hey, I use xyz product and it works decent and is environmentally friendly," they would be doing me a huge favor.
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But when you say it's not environmentally safe, what do you mean by that? Are you hosing it off into a storm drain? If the effluent is going into a sanitary sewer, or you are wiping it off with towels and washing them, or throwing them away (in the case of disposable towels), then your impact is different than the storm drain.
 
Is it more environmentally friendly to use some sort of "soft" disposable towel to clean tar off rocker panels, wells, etc, and then throw the towels away? Obviously they would head to the landfill after being thrown away. Is the chemical more contained there, than if it went into my drains (which don't head into storm drains obviously)?
 
Modern landfills are designed to not leach things into the ground and water table...that being said, I'm not sure if the landfills where your garbage goes are "modern". As far as the sewage treatment, there's a lot better chance of things getting removed from the sanitary sewer (which is treated) than from the storm drain (which is not).

If you were to spray your limonene on the rockers, and wipe it off with paper towels (or even shop rags cheap enough to dispose of), I'm sure that someone would be happy to charge you to remove those as hazardous waste. On that note, you may be able to find a uniform supply place that will supply you with shop rags for that purpose that they will then launder for you. The proper treatment of the effluent will then be their responsibility (that doesn't mean you shouldn't be up front with them about what kind of soil you may get on them, but they likely supply to garages, etc. that get them greasy).

Is your interest altruism or presenting a "green" image to customers?
 
I am genuinely intereded in not killing the environment with my business. Honestly though this just isnt the most green profession, unless your doing all rinsless washing and using all natural products but then you are most likely compromising on quality
 
So, we were talking about body solvent. What would be the pros and cons of it compared to something like what I'm using?
 
statusdetailing said:
So, we were talking about body solvent. What would be the pros and cons of it compared to something like what I'm using?
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I don't know. You're going to have some minute percentage of solvents and oils which you are allowed to discharge into your sanitary sewer. If you really want to get into the letter of the law you're going to be better off using a solvent, whatever it is, and wiping it off with a (paper) towel and disposing of that as solid waste, whether that goes to a landfill or you get someone to take your bin of soiled towels every week.

Oddly enough, I googled it and the first hit was in MO:

http://ehs.missouri.edu/haz/pdf/sanitary-sewer.pdf

Here's another: http://ehs.yale.edu/sites/default/files/ChemicalsSanitarySewer.pdf
 
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