Sunday, March 25, 2007

PVC is BAD, I mean, seriously people.

Everytime I open up an issue of eco-structure magazine or Environmental Design + Construction I find advertisements for vinyl flooring and I think to myself "How the heck can this crud be in an environmentally centered construction magazine?" Then I wonder if I am taking crazy pills.

Well, I appear to not be the only one flummoxed by this happening. Recently Healthy Building News has published a finding that soon after the USGBC has listed PVC as an unhealthy building material the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has discovered that a deadly 2004 factory explosion occurred because of released vinyl chloride gas.

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