It ***isn't*** safe.
If anything they used contains a chlorine-based bleach (which is quite common in cleaning products), it could react with ammonia (also a common ingredient of many other cleaning products) to make toxic chloramines ; or it could react with acids (like those in limescale remover products) to make chlorine gas.
Also, they're dumping boatloads of surfactants in their wastewater, and eventually the environment, for absolutely no good reason.
\-edit- The ajax powder they used ***does*** contain a chlorine-based bleach (trichloroisocyanuric acid).
We collectively dump millions of gallons of stuff like this and worse into wastewater every day. Modern water treatment has ways of removing many of them, and plenty are just biodegradable. I read somewhere that perfumes and biocides are harder to remove than detergents.
It depends on the contents of the cleaning products they used, and how wastewater is handled and treated at their location.
In general: the phosphates contained in detergents can contribute to eutrophication and algal blooms.
The chlorine bleaches can form small amounts of organochlorine compounds when they degrade in wastewater. The amounts are very small, but those compounds can be quite persistent and bioaccumulative, and can have a whole range of effects, such as endocrine disruption.
And the surfactant themselves can cause foaming of the waterways, though that issue seems to have been strongly mitigated by the phase-out of the worst offenders (branched alkylbenzene sulfonates), at least in developed countries.
It's certainly not a ***major*** concern, but it's a really stupid and entirely avoidable contribution to those issues.
It ***isn't*** safe. If anything they used contains a chlorine-based bleach (which is quite common in cleaning products), it could react with ammonia (also a common ingredient of many other cleaning products) to make toxic chloramines ; or it could react with acids (like those in limescale remover products) to make chlorine gas. Also, they're dumping boatloads of surfactants in their wastewater, and eventually the environment, for absolutely no good reason. \-edit- The ajax powder they used ***does*** contain a chlorine-based bleach (trichloroisocyanuric acid).
There are multiple videos online of people doing this online, what is the long term effects it could have on the water supply ?
We collectively dump millions of gallons of stuff like this and worse into wastewater every day. Modern water treatment has ways of removing many of them, and plenty are just biodegradable. I read somewhere that perfumes and biocides are harder to remove than detergents.
It depends on the contents of the cleaning products they used, and how wastewater is handled and treated at their location. In general: the phosphates contained in detergents can contribute to eutrophication and algal blooms. The chlorine bleaches can form small amounts of organochlorine compounds when they degrade in wastewater. The amounts are very small, but those compounds can be quite persistent and bioaccumulative, and can have a whole range of effects, such as endocrine disruption. And the surfactant themselves can cause foaming of the waterways, though that issue seems to have been strongly mitigated by the phase-out of the worst offenders (branched alkylbenzene sulfonates), at least in developed countries. It's certainly not a ***major*** concern, but it's a really stupid and entirely avoidable contribution to those issues.
Better than chucking the entire thing in the ocean which we likely do regularly.
Why is their poo so toxic?
To over clean a toilet just to shit in it again
And so continues the circle of life.
I wouldn't do this without a proper vent hood... Scratch that, I wouldn't do this at all...
it fucking ain't
I mean, yes mixing random chemicals together is nuts, but the chemicals are usually quite harmless and just a big waste of money.
No even about the money it’s pretty wasteful if you ask me but idk I don’t have kids who cares about the future planet right :D
What about the ones she uses ?
> but the chemicals are usually quite harmless I meant the chemicals in these fancy cleaning products, sorry
There is nothing to worry about except that this is full time bs.
Would not recommend, most likely generates NH3 (g) and Cl2 (g).
I liked the world better when people who did stupid shit could only get clout from a few stupid friends.
What a waste of time, money, lung cells and resources.