We recently posted a poll on our website asking you, “Do you try to avoid using vinyl in your home?” Forty-two percent of responders answered, “Yes, whenever I can,” while 40 percent of responders ...

Five companies collectively produce more than 10 billion pounds of vinyl chloride in a year in the U.S. It is outrageous that so many communities are being exposed...Governments and major retailers ...

Lindsey Reynolds is a writer and enthusiast in all things sustainable. Her work has appeared in Garden & Gun, CNN Eatocracy, The Daily Mississippian, Good Grit, and Oxford magazine. Vinyl is a ...

Not all plastics are bad. Some are horrible. Do you know the smell that you get when you enter a brand new car? That is the smell of phthalates (pronounced “thalates”), a dangerous chemical leaching ...

The world's most versatile plastic had a rather humble beginning: A rubber scientist during the early 1920s stumbled onto a new material with fantastic properties during his search for a synthetic ...