Road Salt Is Worse Than You Think

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We use road salt to melt ice after a snowstorm, but is it bad for the environment? • • Watch Matt on SourceFed: / sourcefed • Follow Matt on Twitter: / mattlieberman • • Read More: • How America got addicted to road salt - and why it’s a problem • http://www.vox.com/2015/1/13/7531833/... • “The US economy doesn't grind to a halt every time there's a snowstorm. And a big reason for that is the more than 15 million tons of salt we dump on our highways, roads, and sidewalks each winter to melt away the snow and ice.” • • Road Salts Alternatives • http://water.greenventure.ca/road-sal... • “With more than five million tonnes of road salts used in Canada each year, we all know the damage they can do: they eat the metal in our cars, corrode body work and brake lines, contaminate roadside streams where we fish, and damage concrete bridges and parking garages.” • • Communities seek a substitute for road salt • http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/na... • “From sugarcane molasses to beet juice, local governments look for alternatives.” • • ____________________ • • DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. • • Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews • • Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... • • DNews on Twitter / dnews • • Trace Dominguez on Twitter / tracedominguez • • Julia Wilde on Twitter / julia_sci • • DNews on Facebook / discoverynews • • DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews • • Discovery News http://discoverynews.com • • Download the TestTube App: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq

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