Contact:Dianna Wentz
Phone:703-237-2249*19
E-mail:media@chej.org

Key Media Resources for Volatile Vinyl:

• National press release


• Executive summary of Volatile Vinyl report


• Full report – Volatile Vinyl – the new Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell


• Quote sheet


• B-Roll to download


• Still photos to download


• Slide show from national press conference

Other Volatile Vinyl Media Resources:

• Hazards of chemicals in and released from PVC shower curtains


• PVC and PVC-free shower curtains sold at major retailers


• Agenda of national press conference


• Peer reviewer contact sheet


• Letter to major retailers selling PVC shower curtains


• Petition to Consumer Product Safety Commission


• Sign the petition for toxic-free shower curtains

Background Information on PVC

• Facts on PVC


• Reports on the hazards of PVC


• Life near PVC plants


• Top ten states incinerating PVC waste


• Top ten states landfilling PVC waste


• Safe products


• PVC products in your home


• PVC governmental policies


• PVC corporate policies
  

Still photos to download

• All photos can be downloaded and used for print/web/broadcast publication.

  All photos should be credited to Stacey Vaeth, except for the environmental chamber, Lois Gibbs, and Mike Schade photos. The environmental chamber photo is courtesy of Air Quality Sciences.