polystyrene sulfates? yeah likely. Biodegradable it is not but building up in your local fauna it is. He could have just used some acid to bring it back up to 100% eff. Hydrochloric works best but if you are trying to be food safe and whatnot phosphoric works fine.
I just lectured my old uncle (77yr) about this and microplastics! His attitude was: "well, it's just the way it is..." "What can we really do?" "I did it this way last time.." He ended up making a big effort to put most of what we could salvage in a bag so we could dispose of it properly. I've never been more proud! Is there a biodegradable material out in the market rn? Or alternative method?
No biodegradable way but other ways to break it down, best thing to do is let it break down via UV light, so leave it expose to the sun. Being small sun will break it down pretty fast, a few years. Bagging it up and toss in the trash and ending up in a land fill it'll last for millions of years underground. This batch that I left out in the sun has all been broken down and is gone.
@@DaBinChe oooh, no DaBinChe.. I think there was a discussion about it in the earlier comments. It truly does not get dissolved and change chemically like food or other organic materials (trees/cotton/etc.) Because we cannot see it, it does not mean that it is gone. If something eats that plastic, it will still poop out plastic forever (why we now have fish that have plastic in them) Thank you for replying though and I hope one day someone will find a way to solve this issue.
Hey there Elmer Fudd. That looks like perfectly good resign to me.but, Nevertheless it should not be poured out onto the ground. It should go into a container and disposed of according to local code.
Have you heard of microplastics? A landfill is lined with thick clay and plastic to contain everything, and that's better then just dumping it out in the open. There's absolutely no justifying dumping plastic anywhere really.
Resin doesn't expand that’s the water cohering to it. You will not loose resin if it’s installed correctly. The screens and some with o rings on the tube are designed to keep it in. Installing it backwards can send resin out of the tank. As the water passes down the tube up thru the bed the minerals get stuck in the crevasses in the irregular shaped plastic bits “resin” thus filtering your water. When the resin bits get fully plugged with minerals you get hard water until the unit regenerates. The salt water from the salt tank gets sucked into the resin bed and the salt breaks the minerals off of the resin. The unit backwashes the salt water and the minerals down the drain leaving clean resin to filter water again. Use good salt. If you have rust use salt with rust remover additives. Iron can coat the resin and is harder to get off than the minerals and can shorten the life of the resin. You should have your hard water tested and your soft water tested before you replace resin or buy another softener. Don’t just “put one in.” The current softener could even be in bypass and of course the water is hard so check that. Dad was a plumber for 38 years. Also bypass your water softener if you ever chlorinate your well. Enough chlorine/bleach can melt the resin.
Our softner in our house we bought is 34 years old. Softner was bypassed for at least 12 according to prior owner.. i turned it on.. found it was clogged with sediment and had two bad o rings. I drained the salt ice bergs and blocks out of the brine tabk.. full of sediment at the bottom. I installed 4 big blue house filters for sediment iron heavy metals taste etc. Softner works now.. tested at 0 Gh for general hardness now. And i get that softner slimey feeling when using soap and water. Onky problem is when it regens it release sediment and iron into the sinks and toilet.. and takes like 15 min of running the sink to clear up.. tastes like iron too.. Seems the main softner tank has sediment in it from the house not having filters prior. Just like the brine tank. Debating on continuining this.. maybe itll clear itself out over time. Or just draining the tank and redoing it. I dunno yet. Hate fixing what aint broke. Clearly the resin is working after 34 uears.. i just hate the sediment build up in it. If i bypass the softner and go directky from the well to my 4 big filters water tasyest great no smell no sediment. But if i go back from the filters to softner.. it smells of iron again and has sediment.. because the tank collected unfiltered sediment for 20+ years..
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 you shouldn’t get sediment unless water is being ran or leaking while the unit is cycling. Most are factory set to run at 2:00am if the correct time of day is set on the timer because most people do not use water then. If you have a toilet or a faucet or anything that leaks this will pull sediment into your pipes during the cycle. It’s usually a toilet flapper leaking or someone flushing it. Put some food coloring drops in the toilet tank and you’ll see if it leaks into the bowel. As far as the tank holding sediment you can pour iron out powder into the salt tank and this will help remove it faster. Factory recommends 3 back to back cycles to clean it up. If you have the tan color fiberglass tank you can put a flashlight against it with the room dark and watch the bed lift up during the first cycle. Run the light up and down the tank until you can see the bed. If there’s a bunch of sediment you will see it. The better water pressure you have the better it can backwash itself. If the valve timer is digital it is possible the rinse cycle might not be long enough to repack the bed and that’s why you are getting sediment too. Some timers can be set and others cannot. Hope this helps.
1st: Resin ISN'T "biodegradable". Ask any manufacturer. 2nd: It is "unthinkable" to just pour it out on the client's ground... 3rd: Working in "flip-flops" is a definite no-no... You can use a simple media removal valve and "blow it out" using a simple garden hose You can make one yourself using a used 5600 valve and a riser tube with the lower filter cut off. Put a used old bypass with 2 male garden hose adapters on the inlet and outlet. Screw that on. Connect up and slowly open the feed water. Outlet hose into your "catch" bags. 5 minutes and its empty. You can get at any hardware store plastic woven sacks to catch the resin. The resin stays in, while the water seeps out. If you don't have a proper bags with you, that's not a crime, then use a couple of empty salt bags, poke small holes all along the bottom, then put any old cloth inside along the bottom. Let them drain outside while you go on working inside. Here in Europe, if you had the machine fall on your foot, and you have steel toe shoes ==> insurance. OK Flip-flops? ==> NO insurance not ok I say that just to help.
Lol. the levels of confident utter cluelessness in some people is just astounding. Let's dump assloads of microplastics straight into the open environment because someone once told me "it's biodegradable, so it's fine"! Hilarious. It's literally polystyrene. It takes HUNDREDS of years to biodegrade.
Better to have it in the open where it can break down from weathering into micro plastic then putting it in the trash where it gets buried and last millions of years. Once it becomes micro plastic microbes will have an easier time breaking it down. Either way it ain't going away soon, but out in the open will go away much much much sooner. Just cause it is out of sight and out of mind at the dump doesn't mean it goes away. Fight pollution with dilution. It'll break down much faster this way unbury.
@@DaBinChe more absolute cluelessness I see. The whole POINT of putting trash in specific waste receptacles like landfills is to sequester it and its toxic effluents from the surrounding environment. DUH
@@DaBinChe Microbes don't break down plastics. Plastics do not biodegrade. They photodegrade, which just means that sunlight makes them break up into smaller and smaller pieces. The smaller pieces seem to be MORE dangerous, not less. The dilution solution only works with certain substances and plastics aren't among them.
Looking at the comments, I would say it's a controversial video. Even if you are just DIYing things, it is advisable to do some research beforehand, take your time and stick to best practices instead of making assumptions ('biodegradable resin') based on some random suggestion and going with whatever comes to your head in that moment.
Wasn't sure about disposing of water softener resin, and looking for information. There's a lot of talk about pollution in the environment here. I just removed my softener completely. No softener, no plastic to dispose of. Problem solved.
So if I put in the trash where do you think it will end up? Magically disappear? Leaving it at the surface where the sun can break it down is better than ending up in a land fill. You fight pollution with dilution, in time everything breaks down, faster when exposed to weather.
Legend says that resin is still on that dirt
it probably is haha
He never even dug a hole 😆
As someone who likes plants, this made me cringe.
polystyrene sulfates? yeah likely. Biodegradable it is not but building up in your local fauna it is. He could have just used some acid to bring it back up to 100% eff. Hydrochloric works best but if you are trying to be food safe and whatnot phosphoric works fine.
It looks like the resin was in really good condition... ?
Hello . When I do a resin reload, I use a construction vacuum cleaner to remove the water. You can reboot quickly and dry without dirt.
I just lectured my old uncle (77yr) about this and microplastics!
His attitude was: "well, it's just the way it is..." "What can we really do?" "I did it this way last time.."
He ended up making a big effort to put most of what we could salvage in a bag so we could dispose of it properly. I've never been more proud!
Is there a biodegradable material out in the market rn? Or alternative method?
No biodegradable way but other ways to break it down, best thing to do is let it break down via UV light, so leave it expose to the sun. Being small sun will break it down pretty fast, a few years. Bagging it up and toss in the trash and ending up in a land fill it'll last for millions of years underground. This batch that I left out in the sun has all been broken down and is gone.
@@DaBinChe oooh, no DaBinChe.. I think there was a discussion about it in the earlier comments. It truly does not get dissolved and change chemically like food or other organic materials (trees/cotton/etc.) Because we cannot see it, it does not mean that it is gone. If something eats that plastic, it will still poop out plastic forever (why we now have fish that have plastic in them)
Thank you for replying though and I hope one day someone will find a way to solve this issue.
Hey there Elmer Fudd. That looks like perfectly good resign to me.but, Nevertheless it should not be poured out onto the ground. It should go into a container and disposed of according to local code.
Elmer Fudd 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Have you heard of microplastics? A landfill is lined with thick clay and plastic to contain everything, and that's better then just dumping it out in the open. There's absolutely no justifying dumping plastic anywhere really.
Don't dump plastic into your flower beds.
I usually eat the resin in small portions with my meals until it’s gone. I’m just worried that I’m polluting when I take a poop.
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Resin doesn't expand that’s the water cohering to it. You will not loose resin if it’s installed correctly. The screens and some with o rings on the tube are designed to keep it in. Installing it backwards can send resin out of the tank. As the water passes down the tube up thru the bed the minerals get stuck in the crevasses in the irregular shaped plastic bits “resin” thus filtering your water. When the resin bits get fully plugged with minerals you get hard water until the unit regenerates. The salt water from the salt tank gets sucked into the resin bed and the salt breaks the minerals off of the resin. The unit backwashes the salt water and the minerals down the drain leaving clean resin to filter water again. Use good salt. If you have rust use salt with rust remover additives. Iron can coat the resin and is harder to get off than the minerals and can shorten the life of the resin. You should have your hard water tested and your soft water tested before you replace resin or buy another softener. Don’t just “put one in.” The current softener could even be in bypass and of course the water is hard so check that. Dad was a plumber for 38 years. Also bypass your water softener if you ever chlorinate your well. Enough chlorine/bleach can melt the resin.
Our softner in our house we bought is 34 years old. Softner was bypassed for at least 12 according to prior owner.. i turned it on.. found it was clogged with sediment and had two bad o rings.
I drained the salt ice bergs and blocks out of the brine tabk.. full of sediment at the bottom. I installed 4 big blue house filters for sediment iron heavy metals taste etc.
Softner works now.. tested at 0 Gh for general hardness now. And i get that softner slimey feeling when using soap and water.
Onky problem is when it regens it release sediment and iron into the sinks and toilet.. and takes like 15 min of running the sink to clear up.. tastes like iron too.. Seems the main softner tank has sediment in it from the house not having filters prior. Just like the brine tank.
Debating on continuining this.. maybe itll clear itself out over time. Or just draining the tank and redoing it. I dunno yet. Hate fixing what aint broke. Clearly the resin is working after 34 uears.. i just hate the sediment build up in it.
If i bypass the softner and go directky from the well to my 4 big filters water tasyest great no smell no sediment. But if i go back from the filters to softner.. it smells of iron again and has sediment.. because the tank collected unfiltered sediment for 20+ years..
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 you shouldn’t get sediment unless water is being ran or leaking while the unit is cycling. Most are factory set to run at 2:00am if the correct time of day is set on the timer because most people do not use water then. If you have a toilet or a faucet or anything that leaks this will pull sediment into your pipes during the cycle. It’s usually a toilet flapper leaking or someone flushing it. Put some food coloring drops in the toilet tank and you’ll see if it leaks into the bowel. As far as the tank holding sediment you can pour iron out powder into the salt tank and this will help remove it faster. Factory recommends 3 back to back cycles to clean it up. If you have the tan color fiberglass tank you can put a flashlight against it with the room dark and watch the bed lift up during the first cycle. Run the light up and down the tank until you can see the bed. If there’s a bunch of sediment you will see it. The better water pressure you have the better it can backwash itself. If the valve timer is digital it is possible the rinse cycle might not be long enough to repack the bed and that’s why you are getting sediment too. Some timers can be set and others cannot. Hope this helps.
Love how people know it all! I’m just glad to see what goes on inside the tank, everyone else - molecular experts and water engineers 😂.
I don't think you should've dumped it. It's plastic beads.
Its going somewhere into the ground. There or at the landfill same'o same'o
1st: Resin ISN'T "biodegradable". Ask any manufacturer.
2nd: It is "unthinkable" to just pour it out on the client's ground...
3rd: Working in "flip-flops" is a definite no-no...
You can use a simple media removal valve and "blow it out" using a simple garden hose
You can make one yourself using a used 5600 valve and a riser tube with the lower filter cut off.
Put a used old bypass with 2 male garden hose adapters on the inlet and outlet.
Screw that on. Connect up and slowly open the feed water. Outlet hose into your "catch" bags.
5 minutes and its empty.
You can get at any hardware store plastic woven sacks to catch the resin.
The resin stays in, while the water seeps out.
If you don't have a proper bags with you, that's not a crime, then use a couple of empty salt bags, poke small holes all along the bottom, then put any old cloth inside along the bottom.
Let them drain outside while you go on working inside.
Here in Europe, if you had the machine fall on your foot, and you have steel toe shoes ==> insurance. OK
Flip-flops? ==> NO insurance not ok
I say that just to help.
Spot on. As a water softener service engineer, this video made me cringe.
Why did you dump that resin in your yard? Should've gone straight into a trash bag. Now you have to do extra work to get the resin out of your yard.
Awwwww, you got it on you fwip-fwops!
You shouldn't have dumped it in soil. Those are plastic beads. It is important to dispose them properly.
Lol. the levels of confident utter cluelessness in some people is just astounding. Let's dump assloads of microplastics straight into the open environment because someone once told me "it's biodegradable, so it's fine"! Hilarious. It's literally polystyrene. It takes HUNDREDS of years to biodegrade.
Better to have it in the open where it can break down from weathering into micro plastic then putting it in the trash where it gets buried and last millions of years. Once it becomes micro plastic microbes will have an easier time breaking it down. Either way it ain't going away soon, but out in the open will go away much much much sooner. Just cause it is out of sight and out of mind at the dump doesn't mean it goes away. Fight pollution with dilution. It'll break down much faster this way unbury.
@@DaBinChe more absolute cluelessness I see. The whole POINT of putting trash in specific waste receptacles like landfills is to sequester it and its toxic effluents from the surrounding environment. DUH
@@DaBinChe you sound asian ? China maybe.. i hear theyre doing wonders for the envirorment by dumping
@@DaBinChe Microbes don't break down plastics. Plastics do not biodegrade. They photodegrade, which just means that sunlight makes them break up into smaller and smaller pieces. The smaller pieces seem to be MORE dangerous, not less. The dilution solution only works with certain substances and plastics aren't among them.
Just had my resin break loose into my plumbing and plug up everything. So inconvenient.
yup, that is a pain
the worm was running for it.
So it dissolves over time? Could u add more resin without emptying it?
the chlorine water breaks it down into a sludge that can clog the faucets and such so best to just replace it, dump it in the trash
Please don't listen to this guy. Google, Gary The Water Guy. He's very knowledgeable and wouldn't dump a cubic foot of resin into his garden. 😂
Resin is recyclable this guy does not know what he does.
Mr Magoo what are the steps of recycling if you dont mind ?
Do the tanks ever need to be replaced?
no, unless damage
how do we know if resin works or not?
depending on the quality of it it will last 10-15years
What type of Resin is that? Cation or Anion? Thanks
no ideal, it is what it came with
It's cat
Looking at the comments, I would say it's a controversial video.
Even if you are just DIYing things, it is advisable to do some research beforehand, take your time and stick to best practices instead of making assumptions ('biodegradable resin') based on some random suggestion and going with whatever comes to your head in that moment.
Wasn't sure about disposing of water softener resin, and looking for information. There's a lot of talk about pollution in the environment here. I just removed my softener completely. No softener, no plastic to dispose of. Problem solved.
Yeah....it's biodegradable in about 1000 years!!
So if I put in the trash where do you think it will end up? Magically disappear? Leaving it at the surface where the sun can break it down is better than ending up in a land fill. You fight pollution with dilution, in time everything breaks down, faster when exposed to weather.
@@DaBinChe hows that working out for china just dumping everything wherever ?
how many days we replace it
about 15years, but depends on the quality of resin, low quality 10years
@@DaBinChe thankyou sir
Every one on here talking shit whats wrong with yall if you dont like the video then dont watch it
Why wouldn't you use a Shopvac and save hours of clean-up later. I'm going to say don't follow your advice, you are an accident waiting to happen.
You should not be pouring this out on your yard. Put in the trash.
Resin is not biodegradable
Uh #EPA
You get me to actually replacing the resin and you stop? That's like. . . . .
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very nice
I've been working on water softeners for 30 years and this is NOT how you do a resin change.
Bad Bad
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