When even American auto companies - notorious for being a little stuck in the past - are trying to green themselves up it's disturbing to see that a company whose focus is small-scale home hygienics seems to be trying to UN-GREEN every home they can. Anyone who hasn't seen an ad for Clorox's cleaning wands should go take a look. Go ahead - I'll wait.

 Did you see it? So now not only are we to use bleach on everything we possibly can (don't EVEN get me started on the  "play with my poops in the potty" ad or the "protect your little mermaid with bleach" ad), we're also gonna use an entire sponge-full of bleach on a stick, then dispose of the thing after a single use for fear of touching germs that originated from our own bodies to begin with. I'm not saying go lick your toilet or anything....but let's not go overboard with our phobias here, hmm? Nor should we let companies who benefit from these fears plant said fears without questioning their motives.

So, how many times a month do you clean your toilet? Let's do some simple math here......

 I clean my toilet twice a week. 2 bleach-filled sponges x 4 weeks = 8 per month in the trash and 8 x12 months= 96. I would be putting 96 bleach bombs in the ground per year. Now, if there are 12 families in my block/apartmet building and they ALL use this product as often as I do, then 96 x 12 = 1152 bleach pods in or on the ground. Great. Expand that to cities, states, and beyond. Ok, we who visit Lime probably aren't gonna use em once we're aware. But aren't we in the process of undoing past follies and aren't there people out there who are still out of the loop? Can we shovel our past mistakes out the back door faster than companies like this can spoon them in the front? Refuse to buy this product and tell everyone else, please. And if you agree with me write to the Clorox company and tell them how you feel. We have enough problems to solve as it is, but we also have enough caring people to prevent them if we start soon. This company is old enough and rich enough to push their market in a new  and healthier direction, so why don't they???

 (By the way, if you don't know what the problem is with bleach, please visit the Seventh Generation website and read up. They are very knowledgeable. Also the production of bleach is very dangerous to us all. Find an article on the disaster in Apex, North Carolina if you doubt.)

 People who care are the only ones who can stop things like this. Thanks for reading.

 ---Cate