UK Weather: Schools Closed Across Wales and England
This damage isn’t just to the roads, rock salt corrodes and rusts any metalwork it is in contact with, as well as any vehicles which use them. It puts high levels of salt back into the watercourse and does damage to most living things including plants and animals. Nature locks away rock salt deep in the earth, it contains heavy metals and other nasty things that can do harm to living plants and creatures. It makes no sense to dig deep in the ground to find it and then throw it around everywhere ( it’s not even treated to make it safer ), just to try and get rid of the ice and snow on the ground.
