Silent Spring

Chemicals in Sofas Causes Serious Burns to Customers

More than 2000 people in the United Kingdom suffered serious burns from chemicals that were put into sofas made in China. More than 100,000 of the sofas are thought to have been sold on the High Streets in the UK. The chemical in question Dimethyl Fumarate (DMF) were put into satchets, which were then ...

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Endocrine Disruptors in Plastics

The most serious danger from endocrine disruptors is there ubiquity. They are everywhere. This is because endocrine disrupting chemicals are present in some of the most common everyday objects. They are especially prevalent in plastics. Over the last few decades a number of plastics used in a range of common products have been found to posses ...

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Why Action Towards Control has been Slow

Silent Spring has made us aware, but change for the better has been slow. Unlike famines, epidemics and natural disasters that were the scourge of pre-industrial society, the dangers of chemical pollutants are of our own making. The frustratingly slow progress towards creating a synthetic toxic chemical free environment stems from our inability to determine ...

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The Importance Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

The modern environmental movement was established with the release of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. It was an important work of literature that opened the eyes of the World to the dangers of toxic chemical pollutants in the environment. In her book, Rachel Carson cleverly integrated the concerns of urban and industrial reformers with ...

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