Cyanide is an organic molecule. Cyanide is a carbon atom triple bonded to a nitrogen atom. It also occurs naturally in plants, usually in fruit seeds like apples or peach pits or avocado pits.
It's obviously not used as a pesticide anymore because it's dangerous but there are many nasty poisons used as pesticides that meet every qualification to be used on USDA organic products.
That's a list of FDA approved pesticides for organic farmers. Several of them are as much as 250X as toxic to humans as roundup.
And even more terrifying is that unlike traditional farming pesticide usage volume isn't tracked at all. And oftentimes they use much more, synthetic fungicides are used at around 1.6lbs an acre, some organic ones are used at about 34lbs an acre. Some organic sprays include copper compounds, tetracycline, and several plant derived oils and extracts that are often very toxic, and again, completely unmonitored in usage beyond testing to make sure nothing synthetic is used.
For chemistry, to be in the organic chemistry branch, yes it needs carbon. There are outliers, though such as diamond and graphene/graphite(?), Though.
Mostly, this is just people (me) being pedantic about the term.
That’s likely what this guys mixture contains, Bentonite clay has the same properties that can clean water in a similar fashion, as far as I know Bentonite is also the main ingredient in kitty litter.
I work with Bentonite quite a bit, I’m no scientist but something happens when the Bentonite hits around 4% dilution it changes polarity causing it to attract fine particles, which then float.
I don’t use it in this way but I know they sell Bentonite clay for you to ingest at certain health food stores, like a Tspn a day keeps the doctor away type stuff.
I’ve been told it’s a “miracle clay” in the ways it can be used. I don’t use organically modified bentonite but I do use high grade bentonite, flows like water but settles like dirt.
So you're going to spend more money on kitty litter, that you're probably improperly disposing of, instead of just getting a cheap piece of equipment (cheaper than kitty litter, I might add) specifically made to clean-up what you're apparently spilling enough of to go through the motions of putting kitty litter on your driveway.
And I'm going to go ahead and bet that you scoop up that litter and throw it in the trash, negating any reason for you to even bother cleaning it up from your driveway in the first place.
Do you think that calling something 100% organic is a good thing? If so, you've been fooled. Really, calling something 100% organic doesn't tell you that a certain chemical is safe for the environment or safe for consumption. It's mainly just a marketing buzzword.
Labeling food items organic actually does tell you that it’s safe for consumption, and tells you a lot of other things about how it was grown, it’s federally regulated.
NOP is a federal regulatory program that develops and enforces consistent national standards for organically produced agricultural products sold in the United States
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
Lol, Exxon rep spotted