Washington State Brake Makers Phase Out Copper to Protect Salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] - January 31, 2018
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – A new brake law gives salmon a break.
Washington State is protecting salmon by removing copper from automotive brakes. A Better Brakes law passed in 2010 went into effect two years ago, and aims to phase out copper completely by 2025.
You touch your brakes and a little bit of material gets deposited on the road and from there it just washes into a stream or river where salmon ...
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