Petition: Implement Stricter Regulations To Protect Consumers From Toxic Vinyl Products

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Do you live in a home with vinyl or fake wood flooring? If not, chances are you know someone who does. What you might not have known is that vinyl flooring is horrifically toxic and dangerous – both for us and for the Earth. To make vinyl flooring, companies use PVC, or a type of plastic made using vinyl chloride. Vinyl chloride is also the toxic chemical that was at the center of the Pollution scandal in East Palestine, Ohio following a train derailment. PVC flooring is created using processes that involve dangerous chemicals including lead and mercury, which in turn leads to harmful conditions for workers who are exposed. Once the products are installed in our homes, they poison us, too. It turns out the vinyl’s plasticizers can actually slough off the floor and become part of household dust. Then it finds its way into our bodies, both through the air we breathe and absorption directly into bare feet. Please sign this petition now  to demand the U.S. government implement stricter regulations to protect consumers from toxic vinyl products!

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