lower your sodium output.

If you live in a cold climate you’re aware that when it snows, you salt.  Now salt is yummy to a point but as over salted food quickly becomes inedible and unusable, so the same applies to our environment.  We know winter de-icing salt corrodes vehicles, bridges, and concrete, destroys our floors and shoes, and hurts our pet’s paws but the powerful white stuff also kills trees and other vegetation, harms animal and fish species and runs off into our water tablet, compromising its safety and upsetting the ph balance – yuck!   Please don’t pass the salt.  Instead, switch to a sodium free diet consisting of CMA (calcium magnesium acetate).  It’s less toxic, biodegradable, water soluble, and causes little damage to plants.  While there seems to be no perfect solution to this problem (even sand causes clogging issues in surrounding water environments), there are better alternatives.  Try Safe Paw, Environmelt or Cryotech – anything that is acetate based.  Use preventative measures by shoveling snow as soon as it falls and if salt’s all you’ve got, sprinkle sparingly.  Now that makes us melt.