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...into the Garage I brought a svelte, sensitive, Southern friend of mine and a few journalistic plural pronouns. We found the Appalachia shop in a small open booth near places that push Polish and Central American crafts. It was full of stuffed animals, handmade cutting boards, quilts encased in plastic, patchwork pillow kits, brightly colored hearth brooms, and a couple of striking cardboard carton displays of something called "Jack Guy Folk Toys...
...prediction could prove correct, for in the U.S. alone some 6,500 workers are involved in making VC gas or converting the gas into PVC; thousands more are engaged in converting the plastic into finished products. European and Japanese firms are also heavily involved in VC production...
...danger from VC. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have, as a precautionary measure, put a halt to the distribution of spray products using VC propellants.* The FDA had already ordered companies to stop bottling whisky in PVC bottles; whisky dissolves the plastic. Other PVC products offered to the consumer have yet to be proved unsafe...
Neither Japan nor the European nations have done more than start studies on VC, but American authorities are moving to reduce the risks from the plastic peril. The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued emergency regulations reducing allowable VC levels to 50 parts per million. Whether this is adequate to provide long-term protection for plastics workers remains to be seen. An industry-sponsored study has shown that when mice are exposed to those levels, they develop angiosarcoma...
...reprocessing plant. Though protected by fences, electronic devices and armed guards, the plants are still far from impregnable. Last fall, for instance, the Government Accounting Office showed two of these buildings to be security nightmares. Among its findings: doors without alarms, gaps under fences, flimsy sheet-metal walls, plastic skylights that could be opened in one minute. They also found inadequate liaison with local authorities: when police were alerted in one test, they went to the wrong location 14 miles away...