Showing posts with label PFOA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PFOA. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Environmental Impact of Clothing Revealed

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It's not easy finding information on the waste products, the energy used, or the carbon dioxide produced by your favorite shoe manufactu...
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Electronics Recycling Can be a Dirty Business, or Not....

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Electronic Recycling Parts I and II: Reprinted from the Montague Reporter Part I When I mentioned I was doing some research into e-waste, or...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

Our bodies, the ultimate transformers: PFOA and other perfluorinated chemicals in our bodies

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Our bodies are constantly working, transforming chemicals from one form to another like that bagel and cream cheese I had for breakfast into...
Friday, June 08, 2007

What's Emerging in your Water?

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There is a nice review of Emerging Contaminants , recently published in the journal Analytical Chemistry, by Susan Richardson. In it is a r...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

What do nonstick pans, carpets, polar bears and newborn cord blood have in common? Perfluorinated chemicals in the news again

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Once again, the “miracle” chemicals that coat most of our fry pans, raincoats and the ever-white (well maybe after 10 years of leg-sweat an...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Waterproofing the Ocean: the consequence of keeping dry

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“Must keep water out” was my mantra. The old red backpack, my faithful traveling companion for over twenty years, cross country, up mount...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Popcorn, hold the PFOA

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Cruising through the latest news in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, I came across an article on PFOA (you know, those fluo...