Re: PVC White Paper

["Susan K. Snow" <sksnow@1stnet.com>]

Mark Robinowitz wrote:
> 
> At 01:25 AM 10/2/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >Jim:
> >[snip]
> >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> > >Bill Carroll> >Chlorine Chemistry Council
> >[snip] Mark wrote: 
> 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 govrnment > and corporate policies.  The newly industrializing areas 
of east Asia > include some of the most polluted places anywhere.
[snip]
Mark and Jim, 
The PVC plastics industry is also building more plants in U.S. Third 
World states. Louisiana is getting PVC plastics factories from Japan and 
other countries, and we have no say so either.  Furthermore, our 
Republican Governor gives multi-million dollar tax breaks for such 
companies to pollute the living daylights out of us, while most the media 
is paid to keeps us ignorant.
Regards,
Susan K. Snow



> 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