[LukeL]

Much like what happened in Seattle, the EPA will come in and call salt a pollutant and ban it from being dumped in the ocean. For those who don’t remember the Seattle city government banned salt from being used as a deicer because it would pollute the Puget Sound.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Surely they must know the salt originally came from the ocean...

[neverdem]

Much like what happened in Seattle, the EPA will come in and call salt a pollutant and ban it from being dumped in the ocean. For those who don’t remember the Seattle city government banned salt from being used as a deicer because it would pollute the Puget Sound.

What kind of salt were they talking about, sodium chloride or an almost infinite number of ionic compounds?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Much like what happened in Seattle, the EPA will come in and call salt a pollutant and ban it from being dumped in the ocean. For those who don’t remember the Seattle city government banned salt from being used as a deicer because it would pollute the Puget Sound.

It would depend on the concentration, of course - enough salt would kill all the marine life in the Sound. But that much salt would wreak havoc on land a lot quicker.