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August 20th, 2008

Avoid Vinyl Lunch Boxes

Karen’s recent lunch box post at Thrifty Mommy reminded me of the importance of avoiding soft vinyl lunch boxes.
If you can find a soft lunch box that’s PVC-free, go for it. If it doubt, look elsewhere. Karen found cute PVC-free lunch boxes at both Target and Wal-Mart.
Lunch boxes made of PVC may be dangerous because […]

By Peggy -- 5 comments

March 18th, 2008

Dryer Balls of PVC

I’m a nice person overall. And I generally don’t like to tear down products made with good intentions. At least I hope the intentions here were good. Still, why would you produce a supposedly “green” product with PVC (polyvinyl chloride), a product material that major retailers like Target are systematically reducing in their stores […]

By Peggy -- 4 comments

March 18th, 2008

Dangers of PVC

This week I’m going to do a few posts involving PVC. It’s not exactly a fun topic, but I think it’s important. First, obviously, I’m going to talk about why PVC is considered dangerous. Then we’ll discuss a so-called green product made of PVC (hello?!). And then we’ll talk about one cool little PVC-free company.
PVC […]

By Peggy -- 3 comments