Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: shall we recycle our paper? There are both the CO2 and the chemical aspects to consider, and there’s arguments against recycling paper in each case.
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For years, researchers have implicated Bisphenol A (BPA) as a cause of cancer, obesity, diabetes and more. What’s the story behind this chemical? Arsenic is nasty stuff. Concentrated doses of the chemical can be fatal — one reason it’s long been a popular poison for assassins and unhappy widows We may not know all the ways in which the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) affects our health, but we can be assured that we’re exposed to it frequently — BPA is in many plastic products and lines nearly all food and beverage cans. Chemical agriculture’s defense of pesticides conjures up the image of the chain-smoking industry attorney Nathan Thurm slithering through a minefield of facts and figures about the causes of global warming in this classic skit from Saturday Night Live. Image credit: pppsics via Flickr/CC BY Many of us sounded the alarm as soon as we learned of BP’s plans to dump huge quantities of the chemical dispersant Corexit into the Gulf in an attempt to break up the oil slick. Experts were concerned, seeing as how the chemical had never been used in such quantities before, nor in such a manner — until the federal government made them stop, BP was blasting the stuff directly into the source, seeking to disperse the oil before it even reached the surface. After Protest, Chinese City Says it Will Move Chemical Plant The Formaldehyde Council will tell you that the stuff is a perfectly natural part of our world, and it is, in small doses. The E.P.A. has announced a voluntary phase-out of the most common form of the chemical that should take effect in several years, but that move was apparently not bold enough for Wal-Mart. |
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