The thing that gets me, when we flushed coolant in "the old days". We hosed it into the floor drains at the shop and laughed about it, dumb I know. I have actualy changed my ways and feel bad about that kind of stuff, anyway, it seems we were doing the PC thing and didn't even know it :] Scary... Anyone know what it evaporates into? I sat a five gallon bucket of it in a storage area and covered it with plywood and a weight. Thinking I wanted it behind a closed door so the dog and cats could not get at it, anyway it has since evaporated down to about a half a gallon, mostly rust and green syrup, ewe. But it's a lot less then the 3-4 gallons I started with! -- Mark Price Morgantown, WV 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II " Chronic Pain Hurts" -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker) > " From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> > " > " > " > " Antifreeze is nasty stuff, very toxic, it's chemically similar to > " some organic stuff so bodies take it in and it ruins livers etc. > > that's true, but there are many microorganisms - more tolerant than us > multicellular organisms - that can happily eat this stuff.* dissolved > heavy metals would be a valid reason to not fluch it down the drain, > but ethylene glycol shouldn't be. > > * 'bioremediation' - selected microorganisms - is the most effective > way to clean pcb and avgas contaminated soil. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Andrew Hay the genius nature > internet rambler is to see what all have seen > adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list