Re: [GBlist] "Green" kitchen cabs

["Rush Dougherty" <RushD45@earthlink.net>]

did a little more research...

went to  http://www.isobord.com/corporate.html
and saw that
"Together the companies applied for and received a United States patent in
1996 for the process technology of making a straw based engineered board
with isocyanate"

then I did a Goggle search on "Isocyanate", and came up with
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hlthef/methylis.html
that says, among other statements, that
"No information is available on the assessment of personal exposure to
methyl isocyanate"
and that
"In 1984, in Bhopal, India, a Union Carbide gas leak of methyl isocyanate
resulted in the deaths of 2,000 people and adverse health effects in greater
than 170,000 survivors. Pulmonary edema was the cause of death in most
cases, with many deaths resulting from secondary respiratory infections such
as bronchitis and bronchial pneumonia"
and that
"EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, for a hazard ranking
under Section 112(g) of the Clean Air Act Amendments, considers methyl
isocyanate to be a "high concern" pollutant based on severe acute toxicity"

so, really, how 'green' is it? or is it just using a 'source' that we feel
is 'green' and using blatently a binder/glue agent to hold it together?

Rush



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