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So can you tell us just what has been banned by The Eu please Joey, cos I cant find any salt thats been banned.
A type of horticultural based salt weedkiller was banned in 2007 only been in use in the UK like since 1810...,
Yet the rock salt used on our roads to device is just if not more dangerous and more likely to harm our environment by entering our waterways via the road drains......
Typical hypocritical EU.......
 
A type of horticultural based salt weedkiller was banned in 2007 only been in use in the UK like since 1810...,
Yet the rock salt used on our roads to device is just if not more dangerous and more likely to harm our environment by entering our waterways via the road drains......
Typical hypocritical EU.......
It isn't though is it...
 
A type of horticultural based salt weedkiller was banned in 2007 only been in use in the UK like since 1810...,
Yet the rock salt used on our roads to device is just if not more dangerous and more likely to harm our environment by entering our waterways via the road drains......
Typical hypocritical EU.......
Joseph my friend, a lot of Eu countries are Alpine countries, and they use snow chains on their cars.So who is putting salt down your street ? lol
 
Middlewich known as Salt Lake City - salt still mined there for rock salting the roads......
No it isn’t? There’s also huge piles of rock salt left in the open air, oddly stuff still grows round the town like and we can still drink the water.
 
That's a selective weed and feed for lawns......
Not banned by the EU as yet....
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Only professionals can use it though atm. I can still buy it, but I have to acquire it in a less conventional manner (didn't use to be the case; you always had to wear a safety-suit though and it's only safe to use under certain weather conditions). The variety you find meant for normal lawns isn't as potent. There isn't a good alternative though. I keep track of the acidity of my pastures, use agricultural lime and fertilize in a timely manner, adequately mow etc...

It's related to my struggle with ragwort. Very poisonous when eaten (irritation if you touch it), full of alkaloids, and it's cumulative; once it's in your body you ain't getting it out. Normally they don't eat it since it's bitter, but when it dies they eat it (hence it's of the utmost importance that you're able to buy safe hay etc...). I normally remove ragwort manually with a tool that also removes the roots, but you obviously can't do that if you're producing hay. Oh and if you're removing ragwort occasionally you have a passer-by that claims that you should not remove it since it has pretty yellow flowers and it's very good for certain butterflies. It results in liver-disease (cirhossis etc...) and death, the butterfly will have to find something else to eat.


In short I don't think they will ban similar products (unless a better alternative arises), because it would create very big problems.
 
I don't need to look it up. The first "proper" job I had was as a shift chemist at the old ICI Kastner Kellner plant in Runcorn. They took rock salt from Cheshire and electrolised it in a mercury cell to make sodium hydroxide and chlorine. The bit I worked in used the chlorine to react with ethylene to make vinyl chloride monomer.
I notice you've moved on from claiming that sodium chloride and sodium chlorate are the same thing, so I'm pleased some progress seems to have been made.
What level COSHH are you?
 
Genuinely think at this point he's been huffing it as an introductory lesson for his apprentices.

'see lads, the EU have banned it, but it's completely harmless...here have a whiff'

You do dread to think what the poor guinea pigs young men were exposed to. I'm inclined to think when they were teaching Joe about Mendel at horticulture school, he thought they said Mengele, and the slippery slope began. Him being a lifelong socialist it kinda makes sense.
 
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