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[akimel]

Two questions:

1) Is ONR biodegradable?

2) What is the most green-friendly way we should dispose of the rinse left-over? I have a septic tank. I am not connected to the roanoke sewage system. Should I pour it into the sink and thus into the septic system? Should I just pour it into my yard? Something else? TIA.

Al

[CharlesW]

I'm pretty sure that ONR itself is biodegradable, but is the mixture of dirt, oil, tar, whatever, that ends up in the wash bucket after washing the vehicle still a biodegradable solution?

When it's warm, I dump my leftover mix in the bushes. Quite often, I just dump in on the driveway. What little is left in my bucket isn't enough to even reach the street on a sunny day. In the winter, I pour it down the drain. I am on a sanitary sewer system that I hope is capable of handling it. I don't really know that though.

As far as a septic system, I would have some reservations. They seem to have their own little quirks and adding something like ONR might affect the action of the system.

[dublifecrisis]

i always dump mine in the grass

[dervdave]

dublifecrisis, on Dec 11 2008, 08:48 PM, said:

i always dump mine in the grass

It doesn`t kill the grass off

[Scott H.]

dublifecrisis, on Dec 11 2008, 03:48 PM, said:

i always dump mine in the grass

Same here. I have customers whose cars I wash weekly and just as an experiment, I've been dumping the ONR mixture into the same spot on the lawn for about 2 years now. Unless I told you where the spot was, you'd never know.