Triclosan: It's classified as a pesticide, yet it's in thousands of consumer products Americans use every day ... and apply to their faces, and their children. Sold for its anti-bacterial properties and ubiquitous in liquid hand soaps, far more of it rinses down the drain than kills the bugs more effectively eliminated by hot water and vigorous hand-rubbing. Triclosan, also sold under the brand name Microban.
Wash your hands of triclosan! Food & Water Watch is running a anit-triclosan pledge and hosting a triclosan drop-off even this coming Saturday.
Food & Water Watch staff will be on site to collect any products with "triclosan" on the ingredient list. Because triclosan is classified as hazardous waste, FWW staff will take the bottles to the nearest household hazardous waste disposal site.
When: September 12th between 10am and 2pm
Where: Whole Foods Market at 1440 P St., NW., Washington DC
Contact: Kathy Dolan, Triclosan Campaign Advocate, Food & Water Watch, 202-683-2500, RSVP
More Events on Sept. 12
Note that this event isn't far from the other DC Green Living Examiner featured events on Saturday.
- Drop off unwanted triclosan products with Food & Water Watch,
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Check out vegetarian living options at D.C. VegFest,
- Paddle for and clean up the Potomac with DC Surfriders
all in one day.
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