Do Your Homework: Get Toxic Chemicals Out Of Your Child’s School Supplies!
You strive to make your home a healthy and safe environment for your children to grow up in. But what about the 8 hours they spend in school each day? Unfortunately, many school supplies are composed...
View ArticleLead Found in PVC Children’s Products (again)
It seems that sometimes I can’t turn around without hearing another story about lead popping up in some children’s PVC product. Plastics make it possible, right? Last week, CNN reported that new...
View ArticleHelp Your School Go Green!
Our nation’s schools are in trouble – and this time, it’s not the test scores. No, this time it is the toxic chemicals lurking in schools that leave children too sick to learn. Many schools around the...
View ArticlePhoto Highlights: The PVC-Free Campus Tour
I’m on the road for our PVC-Free Campus Tour at colleges all across New York State. I’ve been setting up our giant 25-foot ducky and showing documentaries like Toxic Towns, USA and Blue Vinyl. So far...
View ArticleJust when you thought it was safe to go back down the toy aisle…
Toys “R” Us – you’ve been very naughty these past few years. We were esctatic back in 2008 when Toys R Us pledged to reduce the use of PVC and offer more PVC-free products. Unfortunately they haven’t...
View ArticleCongress to EPA: Finalize Dioxin Study Once and For All!
Today, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) and 72 members of Congress sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging the EPA to finalize their long-delayed study on Dioxin once and for all. Read all...
View ArticleEww. What’s that Stench? Volatile Vinyl.
Know that new plastic shower curtain smell? Smells good you say? Well not so fast. The familiar new shower curtain smell may be toxic to your health. When you open a new PVC (aka vinyl) shower...
View ArticleHelp us create toxic-free schools!
Our children go to school to learn, play and make friends. Yet PVC, the most toxic plastic for our children’s health and well-being, is everywhere in most of our schools. CHEJ developed This Vinyl...
View ArticleWishing for a PVC-free Disney
When we first got the lab results back for our report on phthalates in children’s vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) school supplies, we were utterly shocked by all of the Disney school supplies that...
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