Rethinking road salt

Ecologists are worried about how much road salt is ending up in our lakes. 

Salt is also corrosive to infrastructure, tough on doggy paws and unsightly on our winter boots. 

Shelley Arnott is a professor in the department of biology at Queen’s University and the director of the Queen’s University Biological Station. Joe Salemi is an executive director with Landscape Ontario.

They answered our questions about the popularity of road salt, its impact on the environment, and other alternatives to de-ice winter roads.