Archive for the 'Safety' Category



Uggh. More plastic problems.

Published on July 9, 2008

 
Just when you thought it was safe to serve your kids food on picnic plates this summer… along comes this news….. melamine may not be safe either!! The Green Guide has more information but here’s a tasty (?!) snippet:
Aside from sippy cups, most kidware isn’t made of polycarbonate but of durable, colorful melamine. Melamine is a questionable [...]


Which plastics are safe? A handy guide!!

Published on May 14, 2008

I’ve been searching for a guide just like this for weeks. Leave it up to the brilliant minds at the David Suzuki Foundation to create it — a ‘handy, printable, perfect-for-your-fridge guide to which plastics are safer –which plastics are safe for what use and which are safe to re-use! Hurray!
Get your (pdf) [...]


Free range kids

Published on May 13, 2008

When I was a child, a huge group of neighbourhood kids all got together every weekend at the Lewis’ house down the street where we played day long games of ‘Kick the Can’. I don’t know how it came to be that we all got together at the Lewis’ house - we just did. [...]


SIGG bottles.. are they BPA free?

Published on May 2, 2008

Do SIGG bottles contain BPA? Treehugger.com asked the question…. SIGG responded.
“Very thorough migration testing in laboratories around the world is conducted regularly and has consistently shown SIGG aluminum bottles to have no presence of lead, phthalates, Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Bysphenol A (BPA), Bysphenol B (BPB) or any other chemicals which scientists have deemed as potentially [...]