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Unwrapping Plastic: A Look at Food and Beverage Containers
October 9, 2002
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It's so often that we find plastic containers holding our food and beverages that we may not think twice about potential health and environmental consequences. But, according to a growing body of evidence, there may be reasons to be concerned. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the production, use, and disposal of plastic food and beverage containers.
Featuring:
Debra Ramirez and Edgar Mouton, Jr., Mossville Environmental Action Now; attorney Monique Harden, National Black Environmental Justice Network; Nancy Evans, Breast Cancer Fund; Theo Colborn, World Wildlife Fund's Wildlife and Contaminants Program; Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Cornell University's Program for Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors; Tim Krupnik, Ecology Center; Rob Krebs, American Plastics Council; Pat Costner, author of We All Live Downstream.
For more information:
Breast Cancer Fund
2107 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-346-8223; fax: 415-346-2975; info@breastcancerfund.org
www.breastcancerfund.org
World Wildlife Fund's Wildlife and Contaminants Program
phone: 202-293-4800 x775
1250 24th St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20037
www.wfus.org
Program for Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
110 Rice Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Mossville Environment Action Now
3608 East Burton
Sulphur, LA 70663
mossville4ej@hotmail.com
Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-548-2220; fax 510-548-2240; info@ecologycenter.org
www.ecologycenter.org
Pat Costner
Author of "We All Live Downstream"
P.O. Box 548
Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632
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