By Amy Stodghill •
July 9, 2007
If your shower curtain is plastic, chances are it is made from PVC - polyvinyl chloride. Since this is the stuff we don't want in our kid's toys or in every day plastics why would you want to shower next to it every day? Eliminate PVC from your bathroom by getting a fabric shower curtain instead.
Get a shower curtain made from a natural fiber such as cotton or hemp. Hemp
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By Rebecca Carter •
March 30, 2007
When you spend all of that time preparing lunches for your kids, to make sure that their little bellies don't go hungry and they eat (healthy) delicious meals at school, the last thing that you might think about is the lunchbox. Turns out that's a pretty important step, especially considering that many traditional lunch boxes are made of vinyl. Some even have issues with lead.
By Rebecca Carter •
February 6, 2007
We find it incredible that something so poisonous in every stage of its life cycle is a material that is still advertised by name. Vinyl, also known as PVC, is dubbed by one group as the "poison plastic."