[SustainableTompkins] formaldehyde in imported plywood

[Tony Del Plato]

Thanks Michael for this story. Please forward this to Bruce Estes, ed at the
Ithaca Journal <bestes at ithacajournal.com. It's an important story that
deserves a widespread alert. I just forwarded a couple of articles to him.
Tony Del Plato

On 10/11/06, Michael Dineen < med39 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> Here's a link to a story in the LA Times about how other countries are
> taking advantage of the US's weak consumer protection and product labeling
> laws to dump materials that would be classified as too toxic in other
> countries.
>
> Some highlights:
> *  "One birch plank from China, bought at a Home Depot store in Portland,
> gave off 100 times more formaldehyde than legal in Japan and 30 times more
> than allowed in Europe and China"
> *  "With no government standards, monitoring or labeling, U.S. consumers
> cannot easily identify chemical-free products. "
>
> One lesson:  get your plywood from a green distributor.
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dumping8oct08,1,5900615.story
>
>
> Michael Dineen
>
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