Just don't use tide detergent buckets! I've seen skimmers suddenly foam (duh) when water stored in detergent buckets were used - even when "cured." I've found that rubbermaid containers crack more easily. Anyone else experience this?
Plastic is made of hydrocarbons (chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen). Those chains of carbons form weak bonds with chemicals and odors that they can release slowly.
For you organic chemists out there you know it will take alkynes of people to get to the bottom of this.
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