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Road salt is a major component of winter maintenance plans to reduce accidents, injury, and mortality associated with icy conditions. However, it is all too common that roadways, parking lots, and walkways are covered with too much salt, which can damage nearby infrastructure, soils, plants, aquatic ecosystems, and groundwater. Property owners and managers can update their road salt application practices to reduce salt use with this Sustainable Salt Management Checklist, developed by Partners in Project Green (PPG) with materials and resources developed by Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP). The checklist is to be used as a starting point to assess if salt management best practices are currently being implemented and identify opportunities for improvement.
For more tips on sustainable salt management, check out PPG’s Sustainable Salt Management Resource Hub.