Abandon the toxic treadmill!

1 Don’t buy plastics with bisphenol A (plastic code 7)
they may leach chemicals into your food and beverages.

2 Avoid PVC/vinyl (plastic code 3)
it contains gender-bending phthalates and is poisonous from production to disposal.

3 Clean your indoor air
allow ventilation; dust and vacuum regularly; don’t store paints, solvents or varnishes in your home.

4 Eat organic
organic food helps avoid cancer-causing chemicals and other health problems.

5 Choose health and beauty products carefully
for a list of harmful chemicals see the Environmental Working Group’s ‘Skin Deep’ database at www.cosmeticsdatabase.com

6 Choose a chemical-free lawn
detoxify your garden!

7 Say ‘no’ to non-stick and stain repellents
they can disrupt hormones and cause cancer.

8 Get rid of DEET insect repellent
bug spray can harm more than just the mosquitoes.

9 Forget toxic cleaning products
they may contain suspected carcinogens and other irritants.

10 Avoid flame retardants (PBDEs)
before you buy, do the research; check with a local environmental group.

Adapted from Environmental Defence, ‘Top 10 ways to detoxify’, www.toxicnation.ca

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Campaign/Action/Information

Aamjiwnaang First Nation

Chippewas of Sarnia
www.aamjiwnaang.ca

Occupational Health and Safety Clinic for Ontario
www.ohcow.on.ca

Endocrine disruptors and toxics

Our Stolen Future
www.ourstolenfuture.org

Environmental Health News
www.environmentalhealthnews.org

Environmental Defence (Canada)
www.environmentaldefence.ca

Commonweal
www.commonweal.org

Environmental Working Group
www.ewg.org

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
www.wwf.org

Center for Health, Environment and Justice
www.chej.org

Earth Resource Foundation
www.earthresource.org

Ecojustice
www.ecojustice.ca

Pesticides Action Network
 www.pan-uk.org

Bottled water

Polaris Institute
 www.polarisinstitute.org

Pacific Institute
 www.pacinst.org

Sustain UK
 www.sustainweb.org

Food and Water Watch
 www.foodandwaterwatch.org

E-waste and digital dumping

The Basel Action Network,
 www.ban.org

Greenpeace International
 www.greenpeace.org/international

Plastic land and sea

Algalita Marine Research Foundation
 www.algalita.org

A very cool slideshow on plastic bags
 http://tinyurl.com/6ghx85

Films and videos

Toxic Trespass, NFB film by Barri Cohen with a focus on Sarnia, Ontario.
http://tinyurl.com/5anhy2

The Beloved Community, a 2006 film about the Aamjiwnaang community by Pamela Calvert. 
 http://tinyurl.com/5lv5k8

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