http://www.adamspestcontrol.com/blog/2009/04/are-heat-treatments-green/ Blog about Pest Management Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.adamspestcontrol.com/blog/2009/04/are-heat-treatments-green/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Gerry Weitz Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:48:36 +0000 http://99.198.108.130/~adamspes/blog/?p=15#comment-16 You are both getting at the question, "What is Green?" Are we talking in a narrow or broad sense of the word. If not using pesticides means being green, then of course, heat treatments are green treatments. Just as one has to ask if corn substitutes for natural gas is green when it takes so many toxic resources to grown corn, so we have to ask about the methods to generate heat for bedbug treatments. Perhaps one of you can answer this question. I truly don't know the answer. In heating a house for several hours to 120, is the generated heat causing inadvertant gases to leach from home products. I am sure this happens when a heat treatment results in a mishap and items in the house melt. Melting plastic can not be very green! You are both getting at the question, “What is Green?” Are we talking in a narrow or broad sense of the word. If not using pesticides means being green, then of course, heat treatments are green treatments.
Just as one has to ask if corn substitutes for natural gas is green when it takes so many toxic resources to grown corn, so we have to ask about the methods to generate heat for bedbug treatments.
Perhaps one of you can answer this question. I truly don’t know the answer. In heating a house for several hours to 120, is the generated heat causing inadvertant gases to leach from home products. I am sure this happens when a heat treatment results in a mishap and items in the house melt. Melting plastic can not be very green!

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