Civtegra90
Peterborough,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, May 22, 2009
Mrs... Disgusted was it? You act so surprised that this was happening. Obviously you've lived a sheltered life if this is the first you've heard of a shop dumping some sort of chemical waste out back. My money is on this "oily sludge" being the mud/oil gunk that fills up the troughs in the shop floor over the winter. The troughs usually run to a waste container, but when they get blocked with mud, they must be shoveled out. I have personally worked for three shops (two being GM dealerships, one being a Wal-mart lube shop) where I have had to shovel out these troughs and was told to dump the waste out back out of sight. I am not condoning this behavior, I am merely stating that it is a common practice. Now go... Go play environmental super-cop and take down every other shop in the country, for now your eyes have been opened to the not so pink and fuzzy world you thought you lived in. Sincerely: Mark Peterborough, Ont Canada