General Info
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice: PVC: The Poison Plastic — The Campaign for Safe, Healthy Consumer Products
- Clean Production Action: PVC Information
- Health Care Without Harm: Medical use of PVC and DEHP
- Grassroots Recycling Network: Whats so bad about PVC recycling?
- Healthy Building Network: PVC Plastic
- Healthy Child, Healthy World: PVC Info Resources
- Ecology Center: Plastic Film Can Leach Additives
- Consumers Union: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Plastic Wraps
- Mindfully.org: PVC page
- Mindfully.org: phthalates page
- Healthy Building Network: Sorting out the Vinyls When is Vinyl not PVC?
Databases of Alternatives to PVC
- Healthy Building Network: PVC-Free Alternatives This list focuses on providers in the U.S., but shows that there is a wide array of non-PVC materials (including flooring).
- PVCInformation.org: PVC Products and non-PVC alternatives
- Health Care Without Harm: PVC-Free Alternatives A list of PVC-free and/or DEHP-free alternatives for medical equipment.
Reports
- PVC, Bad News Comes In Threes: The Poison Plastic, Health Hazards & The Looming Waste Crisis
- Volatile Vinyl: The New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell report and related materials
- Links to Other Reports on the Hazards of PVC
- Plastics that May Be Harmful to Children and Reproductive Health
- Greenpeace Reports on PVC, Dioxin and Incineration
- PVC-Free Future: A Review of Restrictions and PVC free Policies Worldwide (June 2003)
- Chlorine, Combustion and Dioxins: Does Reducing Chlorine in Wastes Decrease Dioxin Formation in Waste Incinerators?
- Whats wrong with PVC? (The science behind a phase-out of polyvinyl chloride plastics) (Oct 1997)
- Taking back our stolen future — Hormone disruption and PVC plastic
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Toxic Plasicizers and biochemical alternatives
- Danish EPA: Phthalates and organic tin compounds in PVC products
Videos
- Sam Suds and the Case of PVC, the Poison Plastic (short flash cartoon video)
- Blue Vinyl – A toxic odyssey for the whole family. (movie documentary/comedy on the PVC industry and vinyl siding)
http://www.ejnet.org/plastics/pvc/