Recent Blog Posts

View Post: Rachel Ray Giveaway » CAUSES OF POLLUTION AND ITS TYPES
2 hours ago by Rachel Ray  
Toxic waste incinerators, chemical plants, and solid waste dumps are often located in low-income communities because of a lack of organized, informed community involvement in municipal decision-making processes. .... Hazardous wastes are solid, liquid, or gas wastes that may be deadly or harmful to people or the environment and tend to be persistent or nondegradable in nature. Such wastes include toxic chemicals and flammable or radioactive substances, ...
View Blog: Rachel Ray Giveaway - http://www.rachelraygiveaway.com/

---

View Post: Hazardous Chemicals in Common Home Items
Smart Spending
Mainstreet ...
View Blog: Surfactants present in many detergents don't easily biodegrade, which could mean toxic chemicals leaching into the ground water and the ground, potentially harming plants and animals. .... Chemicals: Formaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, camphor ( which is on the EPA's Hazardous Waste List), dichlorobenzene. What they do: Formaldehyde can actually deaden your sense of smell, and some air fresheners actually work “by coating your nasal passages with an undetectable oily film,”

---

View Post: Carleton MPIRG Pushes for Chemicals Ban in Detox Minnesota ...
30 Nov 2009 by Meghan Keane  
... is focusing its efforts on passing two new bills: one that would require toxin-free cleaning supplies in public buildings and another that would offer tax incentives for businesses that use chemicals that do not cause harm to humans or generate hazardous waste. ... Nationally, only about 200 out of 80000 industrial chemicals have been extensively tested for their effects on human health; the rest are potentially toxic chemicals found in many consumer products. ...
View Blog: Pressville - http://pressville.org/

---

View Post: Sparrows Point admits toxic chemicals have been leaking into ...
23 Nov 2009 by Editor  
The steel plant reported it released no benzene or naphthalene from these surface outfalls in its latest Toxic Release Inventory submitted to EPA. But below the surface, the situation is different. Hazardous waste stored or buried in ...
View Blog: Baltimore Brew - http://baltimorebrew.com/blog/

---

View Post: 7 Places To Lighten the Load And Donate Your Clutter
Apartment ...
29 Nov 2009 by Laure Joliet   ...
View Blog: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

---

View Post: Bhopal Gas Tragedy: NGOs to nail MP Govt. lies
ummid.com
13 hours ago ...
View Blog: http://www.ummid.com/

---

View Post: Meetzorp » Blog Archive » Household Hazardous Waste
24 Nov 2009 by Meetzorp  
One Response to “Household Hazardous Waste”. Fissile says: November 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm. I've had the same problem with disposal of toxic goo. Seems that the county toxic goo collection site only accepts the stuff a few times a year, and never when it's actually convenient for me. ... The way I see it, the local Gestapo are immune to toxic substances, seeing as how they capable of devouring tons of donuts, and other toxic chemical laden snack “foods”, not ill effect. ...
View Blog: Meetzorp - http://meetzorp.com/

---

View Post: Maui Weather Today » Hawaiian Islands weather details & Aloha ...
2 hours ago by Glenn  
It can drive sales in the marketplace for environmentally preferable products, lower overhead costs when products subject to government hazardous waste laws are eliminated, and contribute to enhanced employee safety and productivity. ... In the course of this three-part series, we aim to help you figure out how to reduce your company's toxic footprint by reducing and eliminating the "worst of the worst" toxic chemicals and promoting use of "best of the best" green ones. ...
View Blog: Maui Weather Today - http://hawaiiweathertoday.com/

---

View Post: Shelby County Reporter
White Rock claims EBSCO illegally dumped ...
20 Nov 2009 by Amy Jones   ...
View Blog: http://shelbycountyreporter.com/

---

View Post: Nazi Connections To Flouride In America's Drinking Water « Truth11
15 hours ago by truth11  
Dr. William Hirzy, vice president of Chapter 280, stated that “fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, ... It seems absurd that we would consider paying the chemical industry to dispose of their toxic waste by adding it to our water supply. Hiding the hazards of fluoride pollution from the public is a capitalist-style con job of epic ...
View Blog: Truth11 - http://truth11.wordpress.com/

---