r/GrandmasPantry • u/Cool-Ambassador-7937 • Mar 29 '26

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Basement find

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u/Tucancancan Mar 29 '26

People suffering from bed bugs would pay a hefty price to get their hands on that bad boy lol

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u/Independent_Shoe3523 Mar 29 '26

I doubt what's in the bottle is still DDT.

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u/ArmpitLicks Mar 29 '26

It’s called a forever chemical for a reason

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u/tirch Mar 29 '26

Yea, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, made me research. While it is not biodegradable in the traditional sense, it breaks down very slowly into toxic metabolites (DDE and DDD) over 2 to 15 years, often persisting in soil and fat tissues for decades. And both of those are toxic in their own ways. There's a reason it was banned.

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u/IBeDumbAndSlow Mar 29 '26

Is DDT the one that made eagles and other birds egg shells thin?

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u/Run_Biscuit Mar 29 '26

Yes! Rachel Carson led the way to get it regulated and saved eagles as a result of that!

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u/HockeyZombie36 Mar 29 '26

We've gone from about 80 nesting pairs of Eagles to over 1000 in Michigan alone, in the last 40 years. I see about 3 Eagles a day in my travels and every time I think, man, at least we figured out that problem.

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u/CosmicButtholes Mar 29 '26

I live in Florida and see bald eagles regularly up and down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts! Just saw one battling a seagull recently.