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- Increase energy efficiency and save money through trigeneration
- The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming.
- Organic food and handmade beers
- Modern Miracles, or Another Toxic Nightmare?
- Thirty Different Pesticides Used in One Tomato Field?
- Plastic: Is it Beneficial or Destructive to Life on Earth.
- PVCs and Breast Milk
- PVC, Our Health, and National Security.
- Sailing on a Sea of Plastic
- Serious Hazards in House Dust
- Take Action Against a Misleading Auto Advertisment.
- All About Birds
- Useful Birdwatching
- Million Solar Roofs
- Power from the Sun
- Your New Car
- Facts, News and Re-Usable Bags
- Sea Turtles and Plastic Don't Mix
PVC, Our Health, and National Security.
PVC is made from a combination of several toxic chemicals including vinyl chloride, a known human carcinogen. Its manufacturing process is dangerous. It generates the chlorinated pollutant dioxin that can end up in high concentrations in breast milk. Yet it is everywhere: the piping that carries our drinking water, our shower curtains, the floors we walk on, the rubber duck sharing the bath with our babies, and the medical equipment used to heal us, are just a few examples. Sandra Steingraber is a biologist and cancer activist, having been diagnosed with bladder cancer when she was twenty. Here is her thought-provoking article about PVC and its connection with national security from the latest edition of Orion magazine.
Orion > Orion Magazine > May | June 2005 > Sandra Steingraber > PVC Pollution