Tag: Chemicals - Page 8
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A Thousand Words Are Worth...Ingredients in a Pizza Pocket
We usually start with "A Picture is Worth", but in this case the thousand words are much more powerful. Boingboing quotes designer Justin Perricone: "This is a poster I designed using all of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. First in a
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7 Frightening Signs Harmful Chemicals are Sneaking into Your Beauty Regime
Moisturizing cleanser. Gorgeous hair -- voluminous or silky, curly or straight, maybe even colored; a little primping with product to get it just right. Cover up that bit of a blemish. A delicate scent. If you are of the female
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US Consumer Watchdog Says Shoo to Bamboo Textiles
Last week the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advised it had sent out letters to 78 US retailers advising them to stop labelling clothing as being made from 'bamboo.' Any company that fails to correct its
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PDBEs: Where Do They Come From And What Are They Doing To Us?
Almost three years ago, John listed some of the suspected problems with polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants, including being an endocrine disruptor
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Is Liquid Terminator Robot One Step Closer to Reality?
Image: Universal Studios Scientists Invent Self-Healing Hydrogel Strong Enough to Replace Plastics Hydrogels are not new. Contact lenses and replacement skin are just two examples of uses of these high-water content gels. But hydrogels currently suffer
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Are Carpets & Computers Dispensing Timed-Release Birth Control Vapors?
UC Berkeley researchers are reporting that exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) - found in carpets, electronics, foam furniture and other common household items - is associated with
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Women With High PBDE Levels 50 Percent Slower to Conceive, New Study Says
Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.
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Rice University Adds Nanodragster to Nanocar Collection
Researchers are calling the newest nanotoy in the Rice University collection a "nanodragster." The name fits the modification, with the front wheels smaller and on a narrower axle than the rear wheels. The nanodragster
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Should Manufacturers Disclose Secret Chemical Ingredients?
Image: Flickr, xmatt Study on Top Secret Chemicals Parents want to know. Schools want to know. Workers want to know. Nearly everyone wants to know: What dangerous chemicals lurk in products we use? A new study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG),
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DDT Concentrations May Be Increasing in Northern Oceans
An estimated 1.5 million metric tons of DDT were used between the 1940s and the 1970s, when strict restrictions were placed on the chemicals worldwide. Though the
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Biodegradable and BPA-Free Kids' Tableware
Rooware is the brain child of a mother of four who, fed up with the scant options for healthy,
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Common Disinfectants Create Mutant Superbugs
The manufacturers of cleaning products have made a lot of money convincing people that they are under constant assault from harmful bacteria. We've
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U.S. To Phase Out Cancerous Flame Retardant Chemical by 2013
The most effective and commonly used flame retardant Deca-BDE will be phased out by 2013 in the United States under a new deal between Chemtura and Albemarle Corp., its US producers, ICL Industrial Products Inc., the largest US
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Nanoparticles or No-No particles?
Image: Flickr, Argonne National Laboratory Could Nanoparticles Cause "Dramatic Mutations?" Nanoparticles, hailed as the solution for everything from the next generation of micro-electronic gadgets to curing cancer, are poorly understood. When scientists
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How Do You Spell Sellout? Tony Blair and Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde is such wonderful stuff; it is part of the glue that holds our lives together, that binds our cheap particle board furniture, that preserves Grandma's body so well. Tony Blair is gaga over it too, saying in a speech he got paid £90,000 to
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Toxin in Iraqi Water Pipes Kills First US Soldier
When soldiers are engaged in battle, either foreign or domestic, they expect a certain amount of risk. Death by environmental exposure, though, isn't really one of them. This week Indiana National Guardsman Lt. Col.
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Ford Adds Wheat Straw to the 2010 Flex
Even in the early heydays, Henry Ford was fond of using plants like hemp and straw to reinforce plastic components for his cars. Now bioplastics are back and turning up in cell phones, forks, and more. Ford Motors started trying out soy-based seat foam
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EPA Bans Pesticide Insecticide Carbofuran by 2010
As of the end of the year, one more pesticide will be absent from food crops grown in the United States.
