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De-icing planes, polluting rivers

Started by nashuatelegraph · 9 months ago

New Hampshire Public Radio has a nice piece (here’s the transcript) about an environmental issue that I’d never thought of: De-icing chemicals on airplanes. They use propylene glycol, which isn’t toxic but which can remove oxygen from rivers. Runoff from M ... Continue reading »

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  • It would seem simple to capture the run-off (surely the ramps where the planes are sprayed have organized drains) and to re-use it to a point. Wonder if some reverse osmosis system could re-concentrate the stuff?

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