Lifestyle: cleaning: does UV deactivate bleach?
Self-tutoring about cleaning: the tutor mentions a memory about it.
This recollection is from many years ago:
In grade 6, a classmate mentioned that at summer camp, they’d dipped the dishes in bleach water to rinse them. The student asked the teacher how that could be safe. She said she’d never been comfortable doing it, but everyone at the camp had been ordered to: it had always been done.
My grade 6 teacher was a definite pragmatist. She was from a farming background, and knew outdoor living, including horses, guns, etc. She’d grown up in that place: anything customary there, she knew about. I’ve never shared the confidence she therefore had.
The teacher replied, “Were the dishes dried in the sun?” Of course she already knew the answer.
“Yes – we washed the dishes outside and left them in racks on big tables out there.”
“Then sunlight would take care of the bleach remnants. That’s why it’s safe.”
Indeed, it seems, the teacher was correct.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
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