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Issue?

Recently, after Armstrong switched to a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way of making ceiling tiles, their closed water system started to smell. At first, they didn't know what was causing brand new ceiling tiles to smell like old shoes and wet dog... They eventually found out that there was a greater amount of starch in their water than usual. They found out that the additional starch was being eaten by anaerobic bacteria when the system's pump broke down and there was no oxygen getting into the water.