Are you eco friendly?

[Dave]

Is any one making an effort to become more eco friendly? I honestly havent really changed anything about the way I do things but I also do not have some of the regulations that other places do. Maybe i should just make a change without being told to?

I dont intentionally dump harsh chemicals down the street but I could make an effort to stop accidentally foaming the neighborhood at home :cool:

[Bob]

There's nothing I can think of to be more eco friendly on my part. I wash in my driveway and the run off either goes into the grass or into our sewer systems which are combined sanitary / sewer and it all gets treated before going into the river anyway.

[doctordon]

I haven't changed a thing regarding detailing. My work is done is rural areas and the water goes into the ground.

One of things that irritates me about this "Going Green" thing is the lack of support by local government and businesses. I always recycle used motor oil at our county run recycle center. Each time I go, the amount of gallons allowed decreases. You used to could bring an unlimited amount then it went to 10 gallons maximum. Now it is 6 gallons.

Local auto stores advertise that they take oil for recycling, but most all the stores have even lower allowable gallons and many times there is a sign on the door saying "Recycle tank full, no oil accepted today". I'm sure there are those that abuse the system.

I recently read that each year 20 times the amount of oil spilled in the Exxon Valdez incident is dumped into our waterways, sewers, and landfills by people changing their own motor oil. BTW, the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 miilion gallons of oil into the Alaskan coast.

[Dave]

We have a separate storm system here and I swear there is an agent for the dept of ecology at every drain. Some of them run directly to the river. We don't have laws that say you can't do a conventional wash or anything but it's really clean up here and I guess they want it to stay that way which is fine by me. A lot of people get busted dumping oil, antifreeze, etc down the storm drain even though we have plenty of disposal sites. I can't imagine that they would enjoy me dumping wheel acid or APC's down the street. The local county landfill has a huge disposal area where I dump my oil and other fluids.

I noticed that some detailers in socal are forced to use wash mat's and have guidelines they have to follow. I am not a tree hugger but I try to be smart about the chemicals I use for the enviornment as well as other people around me, as far as disposal and run off.

I doubt that my wheel cleaner is causing global warming but as long as I keep it out of the storm drain I think I am in good shape.

[didmac0]

I think Recycling is a very effective way to be more eco friendly. You may not realize it but more than half of what the average family tosses into the trash can be used again through recycling. That can result in the average family reducing the amount of energy they consume by 5,000 hours each year. When you add up those figures it should give you a huge incentive to make some positive changes starting today.

[detaildoc]

I'm probably terrible at it, but I try. I avoid dumping harsh chemicals down the drains or the street, but I can probably do more.

[Dave]

I've been washing my vehicles with ONR only this summer and haven't busted out the hose once. Although it's easy to do on a maintained vehicle that doesn't see a lot of grime, winter is another story.

For the protected wheels ONR works great but when I did use a wheel cleaner I used Four Star Gel and rinsed with two buckets and a microfiber, one bucket with ONR and the other with water to remove all of the wheel cleaner.

The wheel wells have been kept up so an older microfiber and ONR works great.

I kind of miss the hose though and I'm sure I will use it again, I'm one of those dorks that watches the LSP bead or sheet during the rinse :D

[sal329]

I try my best to do things like recycle and save energy around the house, my detailing products are all VOC approved, most are biodegradable, 99% of my washes are done using ONR.

[jdmser]

Most of the products I use are VOC compliant as well. We're not required to be yet but, I can see it happening in the future. All of my washes are done inside so that all of my waste water goes down the floor drain which is part of our closed sewer system. Everything that goes in this system ends up at a wasted management facility and gets treated. Most of my chemicals are high concentrates so that I'm mixing my own dilutions and reusing my bottles. I need to start recycling my spray cans but, there are no recycling centers close by.

[kingspoint]

I am trying also to be eco friendly. Going green must start from the home and the way you live. I go green by using DetailXperts

[Dave]

I am trying also to be eco friendly. Going green must start from the home and the way you live. I go green by using DetailXperts


Can you explain your process?