You know that little rubber duckie in your bathroom? I always thought the little fella was sorta cute, nestled there between the shampoo and the loofa.
Well, it turns out the little ducky's not so rubber after all -- it's plastic, namely the dreaded PVC. And it further turns out the bathroom is full of the stuff.
Today, the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice is launching a campaign to get Target to remove PVC from their stores. The background is, Target (apt name, eh?) has been dragging their heels, while others -- even Wal*Mart -- are actually beginning to get the endocrine disrupting nastiness out of their stores.
I'm working on a story for Grist that is tangentially related to this campaign, so I'm off now to a demo which, I'm told, will feature a giant inflatable rubber duckie. More on that later ...
In the meantime, check out the flash animation put together by Free Range Studios, the geniuses behind The Meatrix and other funny-but-scary tidbits I'm sure you've forwarded to all your friends.
For me, this one is extra scary: my bathroom looks uncomfortably like the one in the animation ... except the soap has yet to rough up the shampoo.
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ashleybowers Posted 5:50 pm
11 Oct 2006
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Gregory Dicum Posted 3:07 am
12 Oct 2006
Last year, in Interactivist, Bill Walsh, the founder of the Healthy Building Network, who knows a lot more about this kind of thing than I could ever hope to, said PVC "may well be the single most important source of many of the worst toxic chemicals plaguing the global environment today."
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Gregory Dicum Posted 3:09 am
12 Oct 2006
The other one's relevant too, and worth checking out if you want more info.
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