I was watching this documentary about phthalates and how they can cause defects and genital malformations in baby boys. Phthalates are a common ingredient in soft plastic and cosmetics, and so it can be found in anything from T-shirt prints, wallpaper, cables, medical instruments, toys, nursing bottles, perfumes and soap. One scientist went as far as to say that we are watching the first signs of extinction - the birth numbers of baby boys have dropped by almost three million.
Unless CO2 gets us - vinyl will.
(- But isn't it funny how one has to become a freaking engineer as a consumer and zig-zag between things that will kill you and every living creature. Why not once and for all just prohibit the use of toxic, carcinogenic, bio-accumulative, hormone-disrupting and mutation-provoking chemicals?)
I agree, It can be done, if we'd set our minds to it!
SvaraRaderaPerhaps Man is destined to obliterate our kind from the face of the Earth and perhaps vinyl will kill us while we were looking the other way, it's not unlikely! Otherwise we would be here for ever...
The decline of the Roman empire was partly caused by leadpoisning, due to the presence of lead in plates, bowls, cups, cutlery, and plumming! Every empire must fall, finally...
But I hope we'll be smart enough to take precautions in time, I hope...