Tag: Chemicals - Page 9
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Walmart As Government: Screening Chemical Product Formulations To Protect Public Health
Delinquent dioxane isomers seen lurking in darkened store aisles: Walmart to the rescue! Or not. Image credit:Wikipedia GreenBiz has an update on the significant progress Walmart has made with managing hazardous product ingredients in the interest of
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8 Worst Man-made Environmental Disasters of All Time
Bhopal. Chernobyl. Love Canal. Seveso. Just a few of the names that have entered the lexicon of devastation wrought by the foolishness of mankind. Ecological travesties afflict the seas: the dead zone at the foot of the
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Elizabeth Grossman Chases Toxic Molecules Through Our Bodies and Around the Globe
If, in the United States, you happen to decided you'd like to earn your PhD in chemistry, you may notice that at no point are you required to take a course in toxicology. This is partly the reason we're now being assaulted by a growing mob of dangerous
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USEPA Issues Voluntary Meth Lab Cleanup Guidelines
Image: EPA Meth Lab Remediation Guidelines The Volunteers Who Clean Up Meth Labs The DEA estimates that over 100,000 illegal methamphetamine (meth) labs operate in the United States. The guys working in clandestine labs obviously have accepted the risks
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Meet Your New E-Waste Recycling Symbol: "4th Bin" Winners Announced
The iconic "möbius strip" recycling symbol that we know so well was designed by a 23-year-old in 1970; it was his submission into a design competition sponsored by the Container Corporation of America. Symbolic history may have just been made once more
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London Drugs Customer Styrofoam Recycling
Packaging made from expanded polystyrene (EPS), brand named Styrofoam by Dow, saves tons of emissions during transport, due to its lightweight, impact absorbing capabilities. Styrofoam is so lightweight, that it
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Giants Ban Nasty Chemicals... From Team Uniforms
As the San Francisco Giants continue their chase for a Wild Card berth in the October playoffs, fans are bound
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Why GMO Foods Have Failed at Producing Healthy Food for More People
For a technology that has sucked up billions of research dollars and prolonged agriculture's dependence on chemical inputs, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have yet to justify their role in a world desperate
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Flaxen Beauties: Professional Racing Bikes Made of Flax Fiber
Image: Museeuw Bikes) Finally, a bike made of linoleum. Indeed, flax, from which traditional linoleum is made, is the secret ingredient in the polymer smoothie that makes these ultra-high performance bicycles. Johan Museeuw, the retired Belgian racer and
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Missouri Bans Wrong Plastic
The web is abuzz with the newest plastic ban -- this one being mocked as an epic fail of the democratic organism. We got curious...and bring you the rest of the
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Today's Toxin: Atrazine, the Weed Killer in your Water
The weed killer Atrazine is commonly used by farmers, on golf courses and those beautiful green lawns that people love so much. Most of it is made by the Swiss company
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Canadian Medical Association Calls for Ban on Triclosan
TreeHugger has been all over Bisphenol A this week, but there is another gender bender chemical that we have been talking about since John wrote There’s A Frog Disruptor In My Soap three years ago: Triclosan. It is in all kinds of so-called
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Find a BPA Free Alternative To SIGG
Commenters have been all over me for suggesting that old SIGG bottles that are lined with epoxy resin made with Bisphenol A (BPA) are safe to keep using. One blogger, Real Green Girl, writes: "Really? Lloyd Alter, after 4 postings and an ambush of
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Downing A Dose of Castor Oil with Pebax Rnew Plastic
For they're making some of
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Getting Wired Without Electricity: The Hourglass Coffee Maker
Image via RT Sales, Inc. If you are able to look into the future at least 12 hours, and want to cut the electricity or natural gas out of your coffee-brewing workflow, then check out the Hourglass. We first saw this gadget over at Dvice. It doesn't take
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Chinese Town Poisoned by Batteries
Even if "hysteria" may be to blame for some environmental illnesses in China, state media are unequivocal about the poisoning of citizens who live near a chemical plant in the town of Zhentou.Health checks on nearly 3,000 people living near the plant
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Chinese Factory Workers Fall Ill: Is It Pollution or "Hysteria"?
In a story nearly worthy of the Onion, officials in China have sought to reassure 1,200 factory workers in the city of Jilin that their symptoms of nausea, numbness, dizziness, convulsions, breathing difficulties, vomiting and temporary paralysis were
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The Facts About Styrene, Cancer and Bike Helmets
In spite of budget problems, and on the heels of listing marijuana smoke as a carcinogen, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment now girds for battle with the styrene industry. California has proposed to
