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?
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
1932	October 31, 2009	ronald green	SANTA BARBARA, CA	They never belong in school supplies. They are toxic.
1931	October 31, 2009	Ms. Romeo romeo	philadelphia, PA	its despicable because there are other nontoxic ways to make supplies but some companies are all about profit
1930	October 30, 2009	Amy Cartagena	Somerset, NJ
1929	October 29, 2009	Diana Algarin	Maybrook, NY	It is NO GOOD!!! I don't understnd how the poison was ever allowed in schools in the first place.
1928	October 29, 2009	Tonya Luffman	Edmonton
1927	October 28, 2009	cristina culicea	maspeth, NY
1926	October 27, 2009	Mr. Palacio Palacio	Bulakan, 3021	Stop placing our kids in danger! Don't expose them to poison PVC!
1925	October 27, 2009	doris burtman	norwood, MA	Horrified!
1924	October 25, 2009	David Green	San Francisco, CA	I Feel Very Shocked Very Angry and Sad. How can we as a nation accept this disaster to our most PRECIOUS gifts our children. This is an outrage. David Green
1923	October 23, 2009	Kelly Bender	san rafael, CA
1922	October 22, 2009	Rolf Stuber	Männedorf
1921	October 22, 2009	Laureen Marston-HINDI	Montclair, NJ	PVC is such a harmful material from in all phases of its existence from manufacture to landfill. I do not want my children exposed to this toxic material. Please remove it from all school supplies.
1920	October 21, 2009	Lee Simoni Youtz	albuquerque, NM
1919	October 20, 2009	Monica McCarrick	Malvern, PA	I feel school supplies should be made from safe non toxic materials that won't harm the environment or our kids.
1918	October 18, 2009	Elizabeth Hollis	Marietta, GA	PVC is unnecessary and by far causes more harm than good. In todays society, this product should not exist.
1917	October 18, 2009	Kathy Brown	Virginia Beach, VA
1916	October 16, 2009	Tom Kozel	Morrow, OH

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