Date:         Fri, 24 May 2002 08:24:26 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Living in a van
Comments: To: Willolyn99@aol.com
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I respect your concern for the environment.
The lake patrol that sits idling in their 165 HP patrol boat all day
pollutes 400000 times as much as my one bath with Dial soap will do.
I've done some reading on water purifiers for outback campers and the
list of pollutants is lengthy.
I would agree that soap might be a problem pollutant if everybody in New
Your City bathed each day in Central Park Lake but compared to the
swimmers and water skiers that urinate in the lake ...... I'd say don't
feel guilty for bathing in the lake.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 24 May 2002 08:33:09 EDT Bill Marshall <Willolyn99@AOL.COM>
writes:
> Hey everybody,
>        Lots of great ideas for camping, but please remember: NEVER
> WASH OR
> BATHE IN A STREAM OR LAKE.  Not even with biodegradable soap.  All
> 'biodegradable' means is that it will break down in soil in a
> relatively
> short time.  Any soap that you put in water can kill the living
> things in the
> water.  You know, like pouring soap down your lungs.  You should
> use
> biodegradable soap, it is better for the environment and you can
> dump it in
> the woods, just not near the water.
>        Think about it -- if the soap was really that biodegradable,
> it would
> degrade as soon as it hit your wash water, so it wouldn't clean your
> clothes.
>  It does stay active in the water and screws up lots of ecological
> functions.
>  Have pity on some wildlife and dump in the woods, not the lake.
>
> Bill Marshall
> 85 GL Tiico AA
> Bradenton FL
>

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