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Dry Clean Green
Mr Maxwell's response is that of a well funded industrial executive, obscurring the discussion with self serving statements on potential bioaccumulation being based upon "modeling" and implying that modeling is always inaccurate. This sounds remarkably similar to the pooh-poohing of "modeling" by the learned community of industrialists questioning global warming research. Au contraire monsiuer, a goodly amount of scientific research in this day and age is conducted via modeling and accepted by the scientific community. Certainly long term bio-monitoring studies would be desirable and I would encourage he and his large corporate backers to commence these studies immediately. It is their product after all. However I would note that both Canada and California have tagged D5 to be a significant bioaccumulator and California even went so far as to say there is virtually no possibility it will degrade in an aquatic environment. Therein lies the rub. Green Earth advertises their product alternately breaks down to, or is made up of, carbon dioxide, water and sand. Bull-hooey! Great marketing, but if the product does indeed break down like this, how is it that every time a dry cleaner opens his cleaning wheel door, after a drying cycle of 150 degrees fahrenheit (heat after all being one of the primary catalysts to chemical degradation), why isn't he met with the whoosh of escaping CO2 and splat of gritty mud spilling out of the wheel. Why? Because the compound is very stable and DOESN'T BREAK DOWN. In fact, he himself states that the solvent is continually recycled (and distilled at High T)in a closed system. So what we have here is an industrial, highly stable, SYNTHETIC chemical (Mr Maxwell I'll leave it to you to enlighten the public who the industrial suppliers of your base stock and who your largest corporate sponsor is, I'm sure that will cement your status in the green sector) that is manufactured and transported long distances (uh..........carbon footprint?) that has a very slick, and false, marketing campaign. While I have no problem with Green Earth as a replacement solvent for perc, in fact it appears to be a very good one by all current science, the company should be lauded for that, however I must ask....sand, co2 and water?....IF THIS AIN'T GREENWASHING, WHAT IS???— April 15, 2010 9:23 p.m.