“The Baltimore Sun” offers tips for a safe Halloween for you and your family. They suggest making your own homemade makeup and avoiding colored hair spray that may expose you and others to toxic chemicals. Plastic masks, teeth or lips may be made with phthalates and other chemicals so it is best to avoid those […]
The Environmental Working Group offers ten ways to make Halloween a healthy holiday for you and the environment. Their tips include: burning eco-friendly candles – if at all, offering natural treats and decorating naturally with pumpkins and gourds.
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The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) has launched its Recycle Glass Week e-hunt, an online virtual scavenger hunt aimed to educate consumers about the importance of glass container recycling. Little Bottle, an animated character created by Saint-Gobain Containers, will guide recycling enthusiasts, glass lovers, and green people everywhere, through this easy, seven-riddle online scavenger hunt for […]
The “Atlanta Business Chronicle” reports Coca-Cola North America recently began selling a special vintage Coca-Cola glass bottle called the 1906 “Diamond Label.” The 8.5 oz. bottles are available in four-packs and feature the early 20th century Coca-Cola Spencerian script logo and Diamond Label design elements.
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The “Scientific American” reports a new study has revealed that nanoparticles are used in everything from beer bottles to baby drinks despite a lack of safety information. Some studies have allegedly assessed that such particles may cause harm. The environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has “charged that the federal government has […]
The Washington Post reports that the Carnegie Mellon University is expanding the field of “green chemistry” in an effort to focus on using and producing fewer dangerous chemicals. According to Terry Collins, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry in Pittsburgh, “We are practicing time-limited technologies that cause all sorts of environmental […]
Who would have thought? I’ll definitely be paying more attention to my babies’ bottles after reading this!
nilo - Jun 27, 2007 02:17:59 PM
The USA Today reports that rather than waiting for approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), states and cities are taking steps toward banning toxic substances found in consumer goods. Among such toxins of concern is Bisphenol A. This chemical reportedly gives plastic its smooth texture, but according to lab tests, it can allegedly […]
The Star Phoenix recently reported that some Canadian government scientists have classified BPA (Bisphenol A) as “inherently toxic” and it was selected as one of the 200 substances deemed as possibly dangerous and in need of further research. Now executive director of Toronto-based Environmental Defense, Rick Smith, is urging the government to ban the alleged […]
The Washington Post reports that in addition to eating too many cakes and partaking in too little exercise, environmental exposure to chemicals such as bisphenol A may also be making people fat. According to the article, a number of researchers are “pursuing indications that the chemicals, which have been shown to cause abnormal changes […]