Sign the Petition for PVC-Free School Supplies!

We need your help to get PVC, the poison plastic, out of our children’s school supplies!

Many children’s school supplies, such as lunchboxes, backpacks and binders, are often made out of PVC—a toxic plastic that is dangerous to our health and the environment. PVC is unique among plastics because it contains dangerous chemical additives. These harmful chemicals include phthalates, lead, cadmium, and/or organotins, which can be toxic to your child’s health. What’s worse is the danger these chemicals pose- phthalates and other toxic additives can leach out or evaporate into the air over time posing unnecessary dangers to children.  Over 90% of all phthalates are used to soften or plasticize PVC products – that’s over 5 million tons a year!  Children are at risk from even small exposures to these toxic chemicals.

Safer products are available.  Join us in demanding safer PVC-free school supplies for our children.

Sign the petition below, and then forward it to your friends and family. 

After we gather enough signatures, we'll deliver the petition to major retailers and manufacturers of PVC school supplies.

I’m concerned about polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) plastic and phthalates in school supplies, such as lunch boxes, backpacks and binders. PVC is the most toxic plastic for our health and environment, releasing hazardous chemicals such as vinyl chloride, dioxins and phthalates, during its lifecycle. PVC has no place in products for our children. Safer alternatives are readily available, as evidenced in CHEJ’s Back-to-School Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies. I urge you to develop a concrete plan to phase out the use of PVC in your products and label PVC-free products as such so parents can easily identify PVC-free products. Next back-to-school season, I look forward to your help in keeping PVC, the poison plastic, out of our schools. Thank you.

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Number	Date	Name	Location	Sign me up for important PVC action alerts How do you feel about PVC, the poison plastic, in school supplies?
1957	February 01, 2010	Karen Daponde	East Longmeadow, MA
1956	January 30, 2010	Aaeron Robb	Baltimore, ME
1955	January 20, 2010	melissa wolf	stayton, OR	I am very disgusted to know these poisons are being exposed to our children and this country has a lot of challenges ahead but we must eliminate these horrible products from continuing to destroy our country and our health.
1954	January 17, 2010	Kevin Zellmer	Milwaukee, WI
1953	January 17, 2010	Tony Svehlik	YERONGA	Everybody should be concerned about healthy life of our children.Its our duty!
1952	January 16, 2010	L Gols	Natick, MA
1951	January 12, 2010	Margaret White	San Diego, CA	Terrible...How could this happen??? We need to protect our children..not endanger them!!!
1950	January 12, 2010	Margaret White	San Diego, CA	Terrible...How could this happen??? We need to protect our children..not endanger them!!!
1949	January 11, 2010	Angela Conklin	San Diego, CA
1948	January 10, 2010	Alysson Barajas	San Diego, CA
1947	January 09, 2010	Chelsea Wilber	San Diego, CA	School supplies should NOT have poison in them!
1946	December 16, 2009	Ms. Norris Norris	Raynham, MA
1945	December 15, 2009	Tracie Leach	Kendallville, IN
1944	December 04, 2009	Elizabeth Bercaw	Edina, MN
1943	December 03, 2009	Melanie Lundeen	Denver, CO	it's shameful and almost criminal that CEO's of these manufacturing companies would sell out the health and safety of our children. it has been known for years that these chemicals are toxic, but they are still turning a deaf ear to the facts, just to make a buck.
1942	November 28, 2009	Avelina Cardenas	Houston, TX	There is no excuse to continue the use of a material that is toxic to our children's health. If previous generations were ignorant of the dangers, that is a tragedy.. but it would be an even greater tragedy (and a crime in my eyes) to be fully educated on the adverse effects of exposure to pvc, dioxins, phthalates and continue to poison consumers of all ages.
1941	November 24, 2009	Julia Burwell	Bellevue, WA
1940	November 18, 2009	vanessa pellegrino	thousand oaks, CA
1939	November 16, 2009	Alex Murrell	Bristol
1938	November 14, 2009	Elizabeth Lansing	North Brookfield, MA	I have grandchildren in school now and I do not want them in contact with this poisonous substance only to later in life find out they have cancer. It is my responsibility to speak out for children that are in need of my protection from this deadly harmful substance.
1937	November 12, 2009	Nancy Glinka	Lasalle, MI
1936	November 11, 2009	Elizabeth Mattson	williamsville, NY
1935	November 10, 2009	Karen Dye	Daytona Beach, FL	The one place (besides the home) that children should be able to trust as a safe environment is school and the supplies they have to use. Let's stop the greed at the cost of our children.
1934	November 03, 2009	Quintessa Facyson	Durham, NC
1933	November 02, 2009	Brian Craig	Rockaway, NJ

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