Residents of Spokane, Washington are having a dirty time of it with their dishes. Since July of 2008, dishwasher detergents containing phosphates have been banned in Spokane County – a ban that will go statewide in July 2010. However, residents are smuggling in less eco-friendly dishwater detergents from neighboring areas, because they say the phosphate-free detergents just don’t do the job.
The ban applies to the sale of phosphate detergent, not its use or possession, so those who smuggle are not in any legal trouble.
The smugglers are traveling to nearby Idaho to get their mits on brands like Cascade and Electrasol, as opposed to the brands now only sold in Spokane County such as Seventh Generation, Ecover and Trader Joe’s.
There must be a solution to this eco-friendly cleaning products problem – either people have to sacrifice their squeaky clean dishes, or someone’s gotta make a better product.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Good Day!
It’s about time to change our environment & love our community, this eco-friendly cleaning product/s is the answer to all spokane residents. You can buy it online and I have added the link below. There is always an answer to all our problem/s.
Here is a link that might be useful
http://molarte1.qbeautyzone.com/Products/Thumbnail.aspx?ctg=12721&ast=402104&rtl=0&oth=1
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
This just goes to show the ridiculousness of useless government regulation.
The government is forcing people to use products that don’t work all in the name of environmentalism. And environmentalism is nothing more than burdening your life, so you can feel good about yourself for “saving the planet” when in reality you are likely doing more harm than good.
Just watch, first they tell us what dish soap and light bulbs we can use, soon it will be what kind of cars we can drive, and eventually it will be what kinds of food we can eat, what houses we can live in, and how much of anything we will be allowed to buy at one time.
We will be sacrificing our freedoms one at a time all in the name of “saving the environment”.
The environment doesn’t need to be saved and the people don’t need to be forced into saving it.