PVC: The Poison Plastic

[DasFox]

PVC: The Poison Plastic.

Watch the video...

http://www.pvcfree.org/

 

[BrokenVisage]

hmm

 

[Jeff7]

Just based on the Flash intro (with speakers turned off), I am feeling very inclined to take them seriously.





Though I have heard elsewhere that pthalates are not good.

 

[Mojoed]

Interesting stuff.

 

[DasFox]

Anyone lived around a lot of PVC patio furniture?

Man I grew up in Florida, that stuff was like everywhere in the 70s, by everyone's swimming pools, EEEK....


http://www.google.com/search?h...1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw

 

[Toastedlightly]

Fear mongering at its best.

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Fear mongering at its best.

Well I don't see the point of attacking a plastic for no reason, but to spread fear, there's nothing to be gained by it.

 

[DasFox]

PVC has been restricted for use as a building material in some European nations and eschewed by an increasing number of architects and designers in North America. The U.S. Green Building Council is currently considering a credit for "vinyl avoidance" in construction, a move supported by the Healthy Building Network and already accomplished by their Australian counterparts.

This isn't a hoax...

 

[imported_Baloo]

There is a danger, that is true. But it is not in the use of PVC. YOu can eat it all you want and will probably never have a problem, unless you eat big jagged chuncks that get stuck. It's the chemicals used in manufacturing it. Lax safety standards could expose employees with serious consequences. The fact that you never hear about people actually being harmed says a lot about safety standards at the companies making it in the U.S. But there have been problems.

 

[Colt45]

as above, and PVC is normally hard (like LP's and pipe, etc...). The soft stuff used all over has added plasticizers (sp?), some of which have been found to be carcinogenic. They leach out, and outgas some.

I seem to recall PVC releasing pretty nasty shit when it's burned, as well, so there are concerns of household waste being incinerated.

IIRC, a few of the plasticizers were banned in the EU.

 

[CycloWizard]

I wrote a paper on PVC plasticizers, their uses, and their effects about... 6 years ago now (man I'm getting old ). This kind of thing can be said about just about any polymer. The bottom line is that unless you're exposed to the "dangerous" chemicals at sufficiently high concentrations and/or the chemicals are sensitizers, there is nothing to worry about. I'm sure OSHA's website (osha.gov) has more information on this stuff than you could shake a stick at if you really care that much, but it's not something that is going to kill you any faster than the carcinogens pumped into the water supply to kill the bacteria.