Take Action for Clean Water
Posted by Angela Silva on February 10, 2006 - 12:40am
Healthy Fishes and Clean Dishes (Clean Water)
House Bill 2322: This bill limits the phosphorus content of automatic dish detergent. This is precedent-setting legislation and is up for a vote in the House of Representatives in the next 24-48 hours. We need calls of support to legislators. Please call or email your legislator now. Tell them you support HB2322 for Clean Dishes and Clean Water.
Contact your legislator at 1.800.562.6000 to leave a message, or visit http://www.leg.wa.gov/ and click on "find my legislator" to email all the state legislators in your district.
Key Points:
- Phosphates from automatic dish detergent have created major water quality problems.
- Phosphorous or blue-green algae pollution poses problems in Lake Whatcom, Vancouver Lake, the Spokane River and many other rivers and streams around the state.
- Washington State already limits the phosphate content of laundry detergent; this bill extends that limit to automatic dish detergent.
- Safe, phosphate-free automatic dish detergents are already on the market and among the most effective. Consumer Reports gives these products a big thumbs up and notes that it's the enzymes in the detergent, not the phosphates, that get dishes clean. Trader Joe’s, Seventh Generation, Bi-O-Kleen, and Ecover offer these phosphate-free detergents.
