Pretty much anything you buy - whether it's soap or a computer, perfume or paints - will contain a mixture of substances produced in a chemical factory. Chemicals are used for all kinds of reasons such as to smell nice or to kill germs.
The Center for Environment Health and Justice is the group that launched the field of environmental health and citizen activism.
One of the CEHJ reports issued in the last year is called PVC: Bad News Comes in 3s. Read the executive summary and search for parallels to industry’s response to the phase out of CFCs.
Read through CEHJs report on Protecting Children’s Health.
Here’s an Introduction to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals prepared by the World Wildlife Fund in Brussels, Belgium.
How did the chemical industry gather so much power over regulating potential harmful chemicals? Read this NRDC report, Science Under Attack, to find out.
And read Bad Science and the Bush Record to learn how things have gotten worse.
Perhaps no website has devoted more attention to hazardous chemicals in the environment and the Precautionary Principle than Rachels.org, a producer of free environmental e-letters.
Look at the Environmental Working Group's analysis of health and beauty brands: toothpaste, cosmetics, soaps, hair products, etc. It's an eye opener.
Care to see what the body burden of pollutants is?
Here’s what you can do to promote safe alternatives to PVC plastics.
Prepared by Eric Pallant and Terry Bensel 10/05. Updated by Eric Pallant 10/06.