How to Avoid Toxic Chemicals in your Home
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- With our home renovations we took steps to reduce VOCs, lead, and other toxic chemicals, as well as microplastics where we could to try have a healthier and more sustainable home.
My Chemical-Free House (www.mychemicalfreehouse.net/c... ) was a very helpful resource for low-emission and non-toxic building supplies and other home products.
The Aquasana water filter we installed: www.aquasana.com/under-sink-w... (gifted)
If you're wanting to reduce your microplastic exposure, also check out our post, 10 Ways to Avoid Consuming Microplastics: mygreencloset.com/how-to-avoi...
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:55 VOCs
02:40 Long-term Off-Gassing
04:10 Opinion on Air-Quality Monitors
05:11 Lead
06:08 Water Filter for Lead
07:51 Microplastics
08:57 Wear Safety Equipment
09:27 Conclusion
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You are great at presenting. Also, Germanic beauty. ;)
And yeah lead solder is just... Better than leadless, at least functionally. Of course it's a disaster for our health. In many countries it is still used to solder electronics.
So is the new car smell an off gas VOC?
Yup. There's a whole bunch of VOCs in new cars
Thank you for this video, I have had a kitty that had pneumonia and asthma and our current kitty is sneezing despite the fact we have an air purifier. So vet recommended antibiotics to treat potential feline herpes virus. But he is still sneezing daily and frequently. We do have carpet all around except for kitchen and bathrooms. Wondering if it’s the fact that we have a lot of those fleece blankets and fuzzy beds for them to sleep in, as well as having fluffy pillows. If I understood correctly, they are releasing micro plastics but if I vacuum them (or wash the blankets) more often, then that might help? I don’t have a hesitancy towards getting rid of the fluffy pillows, but their beds and everyone’s blankets is a bit harder since I don’t know what else they would use to be comfy when resting on the floor. And I live in really cold weather (snow and all) so blankets are the things that help me survive it. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas please let me know. I am on board with decluttering but I don’t want to have to buy a lot of things all at once to replace the “bad” ones.
Vacuuming, dusting, and washing regularly will definitely help with reducing microplastics in the air! Carpet is also bad with not only microplastics but trapping dust and other allergens so it needs to be vacuumed well. I don't think you need to get rid of everything at once, but if you have items that are visibly shedding or wearing out/deteriorating I'd recommend replacing those. There are natural fibre options like knit cotton or wool blankets, cotton fleece, or cotton flannel that are still nice and cozy. For things like pet beds it's likely much harder to find natural materials, but you could try covering the bed in a cotton blanket.
A suggestion I have is switching out your cleaning products, especially laundry, with brands on the EWG website. There's a lot of chemicals causing asthma and allergies etc. and it would reduce kitty's and your exposure :)
Thank you both so much!