Re: [GBlist] "Green" kitchen cabs

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

Wupps meant to say at the end....

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 that is a "high concern"
pollutant to hold it together?

sorry about that..
Rush



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rush Dougherty" <RushD45@earthlink.net>
To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [GBlist] "Green" kitchen cabs


> 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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