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International Authorities Turn Up the Heat on Toxic Flame Retardants in Building Materials (November 6, 2008)
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- Green Habitat Award Recipients (January 2006) (PDF)
In an effort to support Habitat initiatives toward affordable and sustainable homes, Working Films and BLUE VINYL are giving away as many as twenty $1000 awards to Habitat for Humanity affiliates with the best ideas about how they will move to build "greener" and PVC-free homes. The first four awardees are featured here.
- City of Seattle Rejects PVC Pipe in Favor of Environmentally Friendly Choice
March 05 - The Healthy Building Network applauded the decision by the City of Seattle to substitute 34,000 feet of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) as part of its resolution to reduce or eliminate products that result in the creation of persistent, bioaccumulative toxins, including PVC.
- Firestone Building Company Announces Phase Out of PVC Roofing (PDF)
October 04 - Firestone Building Company announced it will phase out PVC roofing by mid-year 2005. According to Firestone's statement, "TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) supports our overall company strategy to manufacture environmentally responsible commercial roofing products."
- PVC Threatens Bottle Recycling - "Message In a Bottle: The Impacts of PVC on Plastic Recycling" (PDF)
June 04 - A report issued by GRRN (Grassroots Recycling Network) provides evidence that PVC bottles and labels threaten the PET bottle recycling infrastructure and the continued development of bottle-to-bottle PET recycling.
- Latest PVC-Free Carpet Lines Signal Environmental Health Considerations are Driving Markets Away from PVC
June 04 - Kaiser Permanente's PVC-Free Carpeting Challenge Fulfilled by Collins & Aikman; Shaw to End PVC Carpet Production This Year.
- Environment Daily: Opponents scrap over EU review of PVC
June 04 - The European Commission has released a environmental review of PVC and its alternatives that could prove pivotal in restarting progress towards a long-promised communication on the controversial polymer. Europe's PVC industry and environmentalists have clashed over what it should mean for future EU policy.
- Stockholm Convention on Global Pollutants Takes Effect
May 04 - An international treaty on the elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) comes into force on Monday, May 17, marking the beginning of an ambitious effort to eliminate deadly pesticides, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
- Illiopolis: Center of Disaster and Environmental Hazard
May 04 - The Healthy Building Network worked with biologist, author, and Illinois-native Sandra Steingraber, PhD., to put together an oped about the Illiopolis PVC plant explosion, which was published in The Chicago Tribune.
- Vinyl Industry Concedes in New York (PDF - Press Release)
In a victory for the growing movement to avoid the use of hazardous vinyl plastic (aka polyvinyl chloride or PVC), the vinyl industry dropped its lawsuit contesting New York State's refusal to recognize vinyl flooring as a "green" building material just a week before the June 6th hearing date.
Read the Affidavit of the NY AG's toxicologist (PDF)
- New Studies Raise Concerns about PVC Additive Commonly
Found in Vinyl Building Products. (PDF)
- New
Studies Raise Concerns about PVC Additive Commonly Found in Vinyl Building Products
A study released by a world-wide coalition of health care professionals
found that certain chemicals linked to birth defects in animals
are present in high levels in a number of consumer products.
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