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Re: Bedbugs Reported On Another N Train; Conductor Says She Was Bitten

Author: pdxrailtransit

Date: 08-26-2014 - 16:45

GHS Wrote:
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> No surprise, NY has banned many of the chemicals
> and or processes that kill them. Green hotels
> that don't wash linens daily have been reported
> (in the hotel industry, all kept from the public)
> to be causing the infestations get a foothold
> originally from overseas guests. Bed bug and
> disease prevention is why hotels always used to
> insist on washing linens daily, even if you stayed
> more than one night (health codes used to require
> it in may cities -- many still do, but it's
> ignored in the interest of being green.) New York
> City has been pondering becoming a no kill city
> for rodent control. If it were to pass,
> rats and mice could only be live trapped and
> relocated.

Sounds like the only real "green" involved is the money saved with a convenient excuse. I recently stayed in a pricey foreign owned hotel in LA's Little Tokyo (hint.) The room was fine except for when I turned the A/C on, I was blasted with a most putrid moldy smell. Luckily it was April, and really did not need the A/C.

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Bedbugs Reported On Another N Train; Conductor Says She Was Bitten	Itchy	08-26-2014 - 07:43
Re: Bedbugs Reported On Another N Train; Conductor Says She Was Bitten	GHS	08-26-2014 - 16:33
Re: Bedbugs Reported On Another N Train; Conductor Says She Was Bitten	pdxrailtransit	08-26-2014 - 16:45
Re: Bedbugs Reported On Another N Train; Conductor Says She Was Bitten	David Dewey	08-26-2014 - 21:07

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pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> GHS Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > No surprise, NY has banned many of the
> chemicals
> > and or processes that kill them.  Green hotels
> > that don't wash linens daily have been reported
> > (in the hotel industry, all kept from the
> public)
> > to be causing the infestations get a foothold
> > originally from overseas guests.  Bed bug and
> > disease prevention is why hotels always used to
> > insist on washing linens daily, even if you
> stayed
> > more than one night (health codes used to
> require
> > it in may cities -- many still do, but it's
> > ignored in the interest of being green.)  New
> York
> > City has been pondering becoming a no kill city
> > for rodent control.  If it were to pass,
> > rats and mice could only be live trapped and
> > relocated.
> 
> 
> Sounds like the only real "green" involved is the
> money saved with a convenient excuse. I recently
> stayed in a pricey foreign owned hotel in LA's
> Little Tokyo (hint.) The room was fine except for
> when I turned the A/C on, I was blasted with a
> most putrid moldy smell. Luckily it was April, and
> really did not need the A/C.

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