Jules she/her on Nostr: Please don't do this. I'm sure the person who poured salt all over their pavement ...

Please don't do this.

I'm sure the person who poured salt all over their pavement weeds thought they were being more ecologically friendly than using weedkiller, but salt poisons the soil so nothing can grow in it for decades which is why ancient armies quite literally salted the fields of their enemies to starve them. If it ever rains again this will wash into the drains and into the streams, and in the meantime people walking through this volume of salt will tread it into any soil they proceed to. Salt runoff from road gritting in winter is a big enough ecological problem as it is, we don't need to be adding to it.