Is it true that Icynene LDC-50 is not a “green” product, because it is made with petroleum products?
Icynene, in both the LDC-50 and LDR-50 formulas are very green products for several reasons: • The foam is manufactured locally on site, in our truck, reducing the volume of material transported to the site by 100 times. • Although petroleum is used to make the foam components, every day you live in the house and use the heat and air conditioning, you are severely reducing the amount of fossil fuels required to do so. • Use of either 100% polyols, or 96.5% polyols and 3.5% castor bean oil is a far better alternative to using soy, a food crop, as 3.5% of the spray foam formula. According to the US Dept. of Agriculture’s figures, it takes up to 75 gallons of fuel to plant, cultivate, harvest and transport the soybeans from four acres of land, in order to replace 7 gallons of petroleum polyols. By comparison, the castor bean is not a watered or cultivated crop, and can grow on scrap land, not stealing from food productivity. • Icynene corporate continues to work on a method for chopping t
