Toxic-Free Future

PVC and PVDC packaging, made from cancer-causing chemicals, threatens public health and the environment throughout its lifecycle.
Washington state can act now to reduce toxic PVC in food packaging—but is proposing to wait five years.
Tell Washington Department of Ecology: act now to prevent unnecessary exposure to harmful chemicals!
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PVC and PVDC packaging, made from cancer-causing chemicals, threatens public health and the environment throughout its lifecycle.

Washington state can act now to reduce toxic PVC in food packaging—but is proposing to wait five years.

Tell Washington Department of Ecology: act now to prevent unnecessary exposure to harmful chemicals!

Take action at the link in comments.

As we approach The Home Depot's annual shareholder meeting on May 21, frontline leaders from across the country are calling on The Home Depot to lead the industry away from toxic PVC plastic.

Many of the advocates pictured live with the daily consequences of vinyl production and disposal, from polluted air and water in their communities to serious illnesses like cancer that may be linked to chemical exposure.

Safer alternatives to PVC already exist. To protect the health of these frontline communities, The Home Depot must restrict PVC in its packaging and lead the industry toward safer alternatives!

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🔬Toxic chemicals used in plastics and everyday products are showing up in breast milk.

The study, by Toxic-Free Future, Seattle Children's Research Institute and others, detected endocrine-disrupting plastic chemicals including bisphenols, melamine, and triclosan in breast milk samples.

Breast milk remains an important and healthy nutrition source for infants when possible, and this study adds evidence that the sources of these chemical exposures require urgent action.

These findings point to a troubling reality: the chemical industry is making large volumes of these chemicals that contaminate food, water, and people. The pollution is being passed onto babies through breast milk, and it doesn’t have to be this way.

The chemical industry is allowed to make harmful endocrine-disrupting chemicals that companies put into products we rely on every day, leading to widespread, preventable exposures like those found in our study. We need less plastic and more safer solutions.

Right now, the chemical industry is lobbying Congress to roll back basic health protections on chemicals.

This is a clear call to action: Congress must protect our health and prevent the rollback of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), our nation’s primary chemical safety law.

Take action now at the link in comments!

Endocrine-disrupting plastic chemicals in breast milk - Toxic-Free Future New testing found BPA, BPS, melamine, cyanuric acid, and triclosan in breast milk samples, pointing to widespread exposure from everyday products and materials.