Road salt. I hate road salt. Well, I don’t hate it, but I certainly don’t like it. It’s all over campus, in little piles by the sides of buildings where it’s been swept up. It wouldn’t be as bad if they just used regular rock salt or whatever, but the substance they use is green. Salt is not green. It makes white icemarks on the sidewalk. It doesn’t even always work. There’s still a patch of ice between two of our campus buildings. How do I know it’s even been salted? It’s pockmarked. Like someone shot it with a mouse-sized machine gun. It’s been heavily salted. This ice won’t leave until March.
Road salt also makes my backpack much harder to roll. Although that isn’t a huge reason to give up road salt, seeing as I’m probably the only high-schooler in the region with a rolling backpack. But, you might be saying, wouldn’t snow clog the wheels worse? Yes, but it’s possible to avoid snow. Also, snow melts when I go inside.
Salting roads will eventually get that salt all over cars. It’s horrible for the paint. Which doesn’t affect me now, but will in a few years.
All I’m saying is, there must be a better way to get ice off of roads and sidewalks, even when the temperature is too low for the “salt” in the first place. Something that won’t corrode paint and stain sidewalks, and isn’t some weird chemical that’s a color that no salt should ever be.
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