More campaigning: this time on chemicals & the environment

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Anyone who cares about having a clean environment free of toxic chemicals to live in, please sign this

wwf petition

More info (copied and pasted from an email they sent me): As a result of the poor regulation of the chemicals industry, there is not one person, or animal, on Earth that has not been exposed to a cocktail of man-made chemicals - from a polar bear in the Arctic, to a tree-frog in the tropical rainforest, to a new born baby in Britain.

Within the next five months the EU, led by the UK Government, will decide how effective the new chemicals regulation (known as REACH) will be at protecting the environment and the health of our children and wildlife for generations to come.

Please join WWF in asking the Prime Minister to persuade other European politicians to stop exposing us and our environment to toxic chemicals.

And just how much research do "green" companies do?

What rationale do they use in the selection of their chemicals - at some point they are using the data published, ethically, by larger companies. Or rather the raw material supplier who sees an opportunity provides them with the multinational's data...

Sorry - spotted their ingredient lists. TBH, they don't look particularly green. THe skin cleanser I clicked on contains Kathon .

heres another product with listed ingredients
notice there is also a product line which you can phone where you can speak to a person who has more info

What's so great about the air freshener? What's so green about it?

ive always wondered actually about wether all there ingredients are sound obviously they would say they are but some of them are still chemicals (supposedly) less harmful ones
what is kathon ?

Yeah, but I don't need more info. I know how to read an ingredient panel , and know what most ingredients are there for.

kathon
doesnt sound too bad on here

Kathon is a preservative made up of methylisothiazolinone and methylcholorisothiazolinone. Some consumers are sensitised to it, even though it's typically used at only 5ppm in wash-off products.

I have regularly come across cleaning products which sting my eyes, catch the back of my throat and burn skin. Call me old fashioned but I'd rather not have poisons like these in my house. I don't want to clean food surfaces with them even if they do save me vital seconds scrubbing, I don't want my kids getting hold of it, I don't even want to pour it down the drain into the sewage system.

I was thrilled to learn that I actually don't need to.

Damn! Baby's crying and dinners ready. Just when I was getting my stride.

So you like Rohm & Haas then?

think their ethic is effective products with harmless chemicals
they dont profess to be chemical free

R&H supply a lot of oil based products - likely carcinogens?

ROFL

They supply chemicals that are toxic - especially if you are a little bacterium

there probably untrustworthy too then
it was always at the back of my mind because they are mormons and i dont trust organised religion much ah well nevermind back to the vinegar recipes
their food supplements are brilliant though (like maximol)

Rohm & Haas are mormons???

ok bad chose of web site no wonder they support kathon
not toxic in low levels that old chestnut

no neways founders are

Of course, LDS are very good at making money - no offense to LDS, but it is true.

lds?

Are you in some kind of pyramid scheme with them, Luna?

not really i joined dont sell much (too much hassle cause im no good at charging my friends for the goods ) i sell some at cost direct others to the site
i get a free newsletter and google at the people on it read the articles etc
everyone who buys the maximol supplement comes back for more though

LDS ??

Ah, so you're not unbiased then.

they are pyramiders though go on rant about that
highly untrustworthy?