Clean Water campaigns statewide and locally to reduce and eliminate toxic chemical exposures in our everyday lives - in buildings, schools, and workplaces, air, water and food, and in consumer products.
Keep Playgrounds Free of Toxic Recycled Tire Mulch
We can't throw tires away in landfills because of all the toxic chemicals they contain so why is it okay to grind them up, call it recycled rubber mulch and use them on children's playgrounds? Recycled tire rubber contains numerous toxic chemicals including styrene, a chemical that is neurotoxic and a likely human carcinogen, butadiene-a proven human carcinogen linked to leukemia and lymphoma and lead and cadmium which are also neurotoxic.
The Fight for Safer Chemicals - August 2015
In this issue: Wins on pesticides and microbeads, keeping cadmium our of children's jewelery, making state purchasing more green, and more.
What is the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut?
Connecticut residents want to protect ourselves and those we love, preventing harm especially to babies and young children.
