Toxic-Free Kids And Families Act
Our children deserve to inherit a safe and healthy world. But today our children’s future is threatened by a chemical industry that values its own profits over the health of people and the environment.
Leaving A Toxic-Free Legacy For Our Children
Laurie Valeriano
lvaleriano@watoxics.org
Ivy Sager-Rosenthal
isager-rosenthal@watoxics.org
Our children deserve to inherit a safe and healthy world. But today our children’s future is threatened by a chemical industry that values its own profits over the health of people and the environment.
Today our homes, bodies, and environment are contaminated with cancer-causing toxic flame retardants that have escaped from foam products in our homes, like couches, changing pads, and car seats.
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
We have the opportunity to protect our families, the environment, and the next generation by passing the Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act (House Bill 1294). This commonsense legislation will promote toxic-free fire safety by removing unnecessary flame retardants from children's products and furniture in our homes and preventing equally harmful chemicals from being used as replacements. Passing the bill puts us one step closer to securing a healthier and safer future for the next generation.
What the Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act Will Do
Sponsored by Sen. Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island) and Rep. Kevin Van De Wege (D-Sequim), the Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act:
- Bans two forms of tris flame retardants (TDCPP and TCEP) in children's products and home furniture beginning July 1, 2014.
- Prevents makers of children's products and home furniture from replacing Tris with other toxic flame retardants that have been identified by Ecology as a concern for children's health beginning July 1, 2015.
- Exempts children's products and home furniture from the flame retardant ban if the product makers show there are no safer alternatives available for use in their product.
- Ensures compliance with the law by allowing the WA State Department of Ecology to request certificates of compliance from products makers.
Help Pass The Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act!
Click here to take action and email your legislators to ask them to support the Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act. The bill number is HB 1294.
