It's getting cold now! the 'gritter' lorries will be out in force again. Why do they call it 'gritting' the roads when in fact it is all salt. Not all...they are using mollasses as well now! I wonder have any studies been done on the effect of salt plus mollasses on wildlife or indeed on the soil it runs off onto?
Salt is cummulative isn't it? I seem to remember reading that it takes years to leach out of soil. WE are poisoning our land! And adding sugar? Well I can imagine starving animals, hill sheep, deer, rabbits and hares, and even birds licking the sugar off the roads and poisoning themselves on the salt, getting run over and causing accidents. Also, what does mollasses do in soil? What effect would it have on soil fauna and the vegetation? Since the mollasses is a recent addition I doubt whether there have been any studies on this? Can anyone enlighten me?
