7 Tips to Minimize Your Exposure to Toxics This Halloween
Have you heard that the Center for Environmental Health found lead, cadmium, and BPA in costumes from Halloween Express and Spirit Halloween?
Ditching Disposables 2.0: A Toolkit for Healthier Foodware in K-12 Schools
It’s here! The new version of our popular Ditching Disposable toolkit.
We Don’t Just Have a Plastics Problem; We Have a Single-Use Problem
In today’s fast-paced world, we are often eating on the go or rushing from one place to the next and it is no surprise to see how we’ve become dependent upon disposable products. It has been well-documented that single-use plastic food packaging–derived from petroleum...
New Fact Sheet Reveals the Worst Plastics
Today NRDC released a fact sheet in partnership with the Break Free From Plastic movement highlighting the worst and most toxic plastics.
Would You Drink the Water?
State and federal officials and regulators have made a big deal about having a cup of water when they visit the most infamous village in the country. East Palestine, of course, is where a Norfolk Southern train derailed, February 3 2023, spilling hazardous chemicals and requiring a burning off of vinyl chloride, an especially nasty chemical that’s used in the production of polyvinyl chloride or PVC pipes.
CEH Annual Report & Legacy of Impact
Our annual report and legacy of impact is now live.
5 Things You Should Know About Plastic Burning
An especially harmful component of the petrochemical buildout, and the sector’s recycling myth, involves the promotion of so-called “advanced” or “chemical recycling.”
New Report Exposes Forced Labor, Toxic Occupational Hazards, and Climate Warming Impacts of Vinyl Flooring Industry
Often signaled out as one of the most toxic plastics, PVC is used in a range of products from credit cards to pipes, and increasingly in vinyl flooring, including in so-called luxury vinyl tile, which is the leading export application for PVC manufactured in China.
NEW: CEH’s Annual Report
Our 2021 Annual Report is hot off the press. Read all about our big wins!
