Helping parents protect their children from harmful environmental exposures is the tagline on the HealthyChild.org web site, and it sounds like a great mission to us!
Healthy Child covers it all, from State and Federal Policies regarding children's health to checklists on purchasing and using plastics. And if this sort of thing has been on your 'to-do' list, but hasn't gotten done because you don't know where to start, there is a great action list, put together by Erin Brokovich.
This site is focused on what we can do, as individuals wanting to raise healthy children. They offer a very easy step by step plan to do this, but we most appreciated the clear and concise article regarding plastic - what to avoid, and what is safe.
There is way to much information here to sum up in a meaningful way, but if you have been thinking that you want to live a littler greener but, like us, have been a little overwhelmed with information, Healthy Child, Healthy World is a great place to start.
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This is a bit rude, but I developed an easy mnemonic for remembering which plastics are generally agreed upon to be safe and which are not.
With either hand, flip the bird.
Now count starting from either your pinkie or your thumb. All the fingers that are folded in are safe, your middle finger (number 3) is the bad one, plus anything else that doesn't appear on a five fingered hand.
Sorry for the rudeness, but it helps me whenever I am at the store trying to figure which ones are safe.
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Jim, that isn't rude, it is fabulous, and I plan to use this the next time I am shopping. Thank you!
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