Spic n Span. Having a hard time finding
I am wanting to clean my roof this week but I am having a hard time finding powdered Spic n Span. Can anyone point me in the right direction of what retailers carry it? There website just keeps saying...
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Spic and Span has fallen upon the shoals of environmental disfavor. It is simply trisodium phosphate, aka TSP, and since phosphate is an undesirable pollutant to the nations rivers and estuaries, there has been a big push to eliminate phosphates as much as possible from the waste water stream.
TSP is still available, it hasn't been completely outlawed, it is just hard to find. As long as you are washing something like a trailer roof, and as long as the wash and rinse waters are going onto your lawn, and not down the drain to some sewage treatment plant, you are more or less ok. The lawn will like the fertilizer and will probably keep most of the phosphate out of the waterways. Unless, of course, you dump tons of fertilizer on the lawn independently of the trailer wash.
Living in Avon, OH, you may know of the days when Lake Erie had horrible algae problems. Much of that was due to phosphate pollution. It's elimination from washing products (among other steps that were taken) have done a good job making the lake much more pleasant.
TSP is still available, it hasn't been completely outlawed, it is just hard to find. As long as you are washing something like a trailer roof, and as long as the wash and rinse waters are going onto your lawn, and not down the drain to some sewage treatment plant, you are more or less ok. The lawn will like the fertilizer and will probably keep most of the phosphate out of the waterways. Unless, of course, you dump tons of fertilizer on the lawn independently of the trailer wash.
Living in Avon, OH, you may know of the days when Lake Erie had horrible algae problems. Much of that was due to phosphate pollution. It's elimination from washing products (among other steps that were taken) have done a good job making the lake much more pleasant.
