Copper/Polymer bullets - environmental impact?

[suemarkp]

I can see them getting restricted. Here in WA, you can't have any exposed zinc or copper on a building that has gutter runoff (the copper and zinc ions get into the water and kill fish). We have been painting much galvanized metal on the outside of buildings, and it is so crazy that even HVAC condensate water (which has been touching the copper coils in a condenser) can't drip onto a roof. I think lead was already on that bad list some time ago.

 

[Walkalong]

Most A/C coils, while they are copper tubing through aluminum fins are coated in something besides copper. I guess not all of them.

And while it is condensate (Water condensing on the coil), it comes from the evaporator coil.

 

[jmorris]

Here in WA, you can't have any exposed zinc or copper on a building that has gutter runoff (the copper and zinc ions get into the water and kill fish).

It comes from people making laws that don’t know anything except how to make laws. Copper sulfate has been used for many years as an algaecide and a parasite treatment. As long as you don’t use it in concentrations high enough to effect oxygen levels you won’t kill your fish.

It’s not the only areas where stupid exists though, I asked a friend about an exit sign above the door in an employee bathroom that is about 4ft x 6ft, thinking it was some kind of a joke. The fire marshal made them put it there and they still need to add a sprinkler system...

 

[Demi-human]

Well, I am a climate change denier, an electric vehicle denier, a soy is good denier, an everyone's opinion is equal denier(No, Charles Manson's opinion is not equal to mine.), an AKs are best denier, and a Russian collusion denier. I might just as well keep the ball rolling with all of science denier. I also deny I ate the one hundred and eighty grain, thirty caliber bullet that was in the venison last night too.(I thought it was just grissle.)
Yup, it's science. I just wouldn't understand.

I tried handloading feathers and hugs but the ballistic coefficients were too low.

Alright, all jesting aside, I like the scientific progress were are making. Especially the hybrid ogives. I like the lessening impact on the environment. I like conservation of the natural resources we have. But sometimes it is all a bit much. We are worried about lead exposure so we come up with something else. Now we must worry about the plastic bullets too? Soon we will all be stick flickers with wooden bows and arrows. But then what about the trees cut to make them?

Please excuse my exasperated "Aww, come on!". I am only human. Well, I'm half a human anyway.

 

[jmorris]

I don’t deny all Science but more and more the field of “science” seems to be a place to stuff partisan politics. Ignore facts gained through the scientific method. Instead of thinking of a question, collecting data, testing a hypothesis and forming a conclusion, they seem to form a belief then try and come up with some sort of test to support it or at times just spout it off like the truth and leave it up to someone else to disprove it, hardly scientific, due to the lack of using the principles and method.

Doing a disservice to themselves and everyone else in the field. Just look what politically motivated “journalists” have done to their field.