Near my house is an outdoor playground with a spongy floor made of recycled tires and god knows what else that STINKS during the day. There’s no way they know the origin of all of the materials they’ve made into this playground sausage that kids are touching and breathing all day.
Anyone have tips on where to put my energy into fighting things like this? I guess I can start locally but anything else?
"Profiling and potential cancer risk assessment on children exposed to PAHs in playground dust/soil: a comparative study on poured rubber surfaced and classical soil playgrounds in Seoul "
"substances of concern that were recently detected in recycled tire rubber samples.3 The nine chemicals are benzo(a)pyrene, hexavalent chromium, zinc, 4-methyl--pentanone, benzothiazole, lead, dibutyl phthalate, diethylhexyl phthalate, and 4-tert-octylphenol. UC staff identified acute, subchronic, and chronic TRVs, where available, for the oral, inhalation, and dermal routes"
Near my house is an outdoor playground with a spongy floor made of recycled tires and god knows what else that STINKS during the day. There’s no way they know the origin of all of the materials they’ve made into this playground sausage that kids are touching and breathing all day.
Anyone have tips on where to put my energy into fighting things like this? I guess I can start locally but anything else?