{"id":13895,"date":"2026-08-31T14:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/faq-items\/which-grease-may-i-use-on-points-where-lubricant-could-end-up-in-the-water\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:20:34","slug":"which-grease-may-i-use-on-points-where-lubricant-could-end-up-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/faq-items\/which-grease-may-i-use-on-points-where-lubricant-could-end-up-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Which grease may I use on points where lubricant could end up in the water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For that you use an Environmentally Acceptable Lubricant, such as SKF LGGB 2. An EAL meets minimum requirements for biodegradability, toxicity, and bioaccumulation under the criteria of the US EPA&#8217;s Vessel General Permit, making the risk to aquatic life significantly lower than with a conventional grease. Biodegradable, incidentally, doesn&#8217;t mean discharge is permitted \u2014 it reduces the risk, it doesn&#8217;t replace the regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For that you use an Environmentally Acceptable Lubricant, such as SKF LGGB 2. An EAL meets minimum requirements for biodegradability, toxicity, and bioaccumulation under the criteria of the US EPA&#8217;s Vessel General Permit, making the risk to aquatic life significantly lower than with a conventional grease. Biodegradable, incidentally, doesn&#8217;t mean discharge is permitted \u2014 it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[405],"class_list":["post-13895","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","faq_category-maritiem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/13895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/13895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroquip.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_category?post=13895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}