As to your child of school safer

Because 55 million children in this country spend most of their waking hours in the school, we must start paying more attention to the cleanliness and safety of the building. Involved parents may require the difference in the changes bring about, to protect their children. Here's what you can do by growing up green: baby and child care by Deirdre Imus

We send our children off to school so that you can learn and thrive in a safe and healthy environment. Unfortunately, many schools with hazardous chemicals are contaminated. Be used on a regular basis highly toxic pesticides to control pests in schools and on playing fields.The air to breathe the children can the toxic mold from water stained ceiling tiles filled with the by-products or carpets or poorly maintained ventilation ducts. during the common cleaning products in schools used the floors, desks and corridors bud keep smell fresh, whose vapours are potentially dangerous and a threat to the health of our children.

Because 55 million children in this country spend most of their waking hours in the school, we must start paying more attention to the cleanliness and safety of the building. The adverse health effects of toxic exposures in schools was well documented:

Click the Westchester County, New York, 27 October 1992 Ministry of health down Eastchester high school, which closed for three weeks after students and staff complained of nausea, headaches, eye irritation and respiratory diseases.The day before, an exterminating company had applied insecticides Resmethrin, Chlorpyriphos and Diazinon in school.Asthma exposure of toxins in the environment associated is the number one reason for school absenteeism and chronic childhood number one illness.Conventional that can dry cleaners neurotoxins containing highly toxic materials that impact on the nerve cells and a child's developmental and learning abilities.A study, published in the October 2003 of environmental health perspectives can affect found that young people increased a quadruple risk of the disease before the exposure to disinfectants as adults.Several showed Seattle public schools found that the concentration of lead in your water fountains of 20 ppm exceeded led billions that the EPA.Many containing mercury in schools are elements, empfohlen.An of a school in Connecticut the simple act of cleaning out a supply closet twelve broken mercury laboratory thermometers. The school was evacuated and paid cleanup costs amounting to six thousand dollars.A report by an environmental Coalition on five States with large school-age populations - Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and California - came to the conclusion that more than six hundred thousand students took part nearly twelve hundred public schools that are within a half mile of Superfund federal or State identified contaminated sites.Many detergent used in schools, as toilet bowl cleaner, molds and mildew sprays and antibacterial detergent containing carcinogens, mutagens, Teratogens and neurotoxins.These substances are known to cause or to aggravate cancer, genetic changes in cells cause and affect nerve cells.

These toxic requirements can lead to school absenteeism, learning difficulties, asthma and other chronic health problems.Remember that it in know your best defense against these very real risks for the health of our children ist.Engagierte parents can make the difference in the changes bring about, to protect their children required.

If we all join forces with other concerned parents in the community, we can force school officials to risk our children from lead, mercury, pesticides and other hazardous pollutants reduce a better job.There are too many easy ways to a more secure environment of the school day create.Your concerns with other parents school sessions to bring, and together can:

To persuade the school to make non-toxic and biologically degradable cleaning products containing little or no volatile organic compounds the switch.You need to clean thoroughly non-hazardous chemicals to a school and effectively.Test for lead in water and replace old pipes because children tend, more than to identify the average adult.Work with your community, to collect and absorb recycling of mercury products that could be in your children school.Start a drive these products with Nonmercury alternatives.Reduce pesticide in school buildings and landscapes to replace and use pests alternative methods verwalten.Integrated pest management is a collaborative effort between parents, teachers, administrators, cafeteria workers and even students that proved has an effective method for managing pest infestations in the school and on school grounds, without the need for pesticides.Make sure that outdoor play equipment, decks and fences on your children schools arsenic free sind.Bevor your child is sick, check the Holz.bestellen to test an inexpensive test kit for arsenic in soil or in wood structures.

These tasks may be daunting sound, but mean environmental Center can cleaner, greener schools reality be our website (www.dienviro.com) to lassen.Besuchen or call us at 201-336-8071 ways to implement these protocols to diskutieren.Wir offer free advice and facility evaluation and can help Green their cleaning lead test your school, go to healthier paints and construction materials and even remake of the food programme.

Together, we visit our schools dealing with these environmental threats and our children to protect against damage.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deirdre Imus, author of growing up green: Baby and child care (copyright © git ' R green, Inc.), is the founder and President of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology ®, part of the Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in New Jersey.Sie is also co-founder and Codirector Imus Cattle Ranch for children with cancer, and the author of the best-selling book the Imus Ranch: cooking for kids and Cowboys.

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