Re: PVC White Paper

[Mark Robinowitz <mrobinowitz@igc.org>]

At 01:25 AM 10/2/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Jim:
>
>I'm really confused about your choice of PVC fittings as an item for study.
> PVC fittings are of little use in and of themselves; rather, their
>usefulness involves joining pieces of PVC pipe.  It's the pipe, or rather the
>capability to carry fluids, that is the object of the enterprise.
>
>Obviously, the PVC industry is working hard to expand the markets for pipe
>and fittings.  Not only are these materials the economical choice, but by
>comparison with alternative materials, they are the environmental choice (the

>Bill Carroll
>Chlorine Chemistry Council
>
>

I'm glad to know that the authoritarian regimes of east Asia are building
more pvc factories in places that have no democratic input into government
and corporate policies.  The newly industrializing areas of east Asia
include some of the most polluted places anywhere.

I'd love to see the Chlorine Castration Council -- die-oxins from PVC affect
the male reproductive system -- discuss the quantities of LEAD that are used
to stabilize the PVC that they promote.  But there are even P.R. companies
that try to exxon-erate
lead's impact on the nervous system ...

Anything that needs a P.R. budget to sell it is probably not worthwhile anyway.

Mark Robinowitz

"O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of Earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers."
-- William Shakespeare