{"id":203,"date":"2020-01-16T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/?p=203"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:30:22","slug":"pet-friendly-icemelter-that-is-urea-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"PET FRIENDLY ICEMELTER THAT IS UREA FREE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">Urea based ice melts are generally the ones labeled as safe for use around pets. However, with a practical working temperature of around -3.9\u00b0C \/ 25\u00b0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">F, urea is not a very effective ice melting product. Whereas an icemelter such as <a href=\"http:\/\/xynyth.com\/products-tabs\/GNI\/groundworks-natural.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GroundWorks Natural&#x2122; Icemelter<\/a> will go down to &#8211; 23\u00b0C \/ -9\u00b0F, it melts the ice as much as it protects your pets\u2019 paws.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, when urea washes off of driveways, it often ends up in the most nearby stream or river. Urea contains nitrogen and when released into the environment turns to ammonia, which can be quite toxic to aquatic life even in small amounts.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">GroundWorks is UREA FREE!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xynyth.com\/products-tabs\/GNI\/groundworks-natural.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GroundWorks Natural&#x2122; Icemelter<\/a> is a pet-friendly icemelter, and it does not contain urea (sometimes listed as Carbonyl Diamide or Carbamide Resin), as Urea is very harmful to the environment even with very little amount.<br \/>\n<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nSo when it comes to pet-safe icemelter, eco-friendly <a href=\"http:\/\/xynyth.com\/products-tabs\/GNI\/groundworks-natural.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GroundWorks Natural&#x2122; Icemelter<\/a> is your top choice!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urea based ice melts are generally the ones labeled as safe for use around pets. However, with a practical working temperature of around -3.9\u00b0C \/ 25\u00b0F, urea is not a very effective ice melting product. Whereas an icemelter such as&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/?p=203\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,67,68],"tags":[26,15,9,6,25,39,42,44,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}