FEMA TRAILERS 'TOXIC TIN CANS'?

[don954]

http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2006/07/are_fema_traile.html#comments

This is an article about the Formaldehyde from the cheap materials used in the fema trailers. Its all doom and gloom and no solution, unfortunately the solution is pretty simple. I used to live in a cheaply made mobile home, and on hot days it would smell and the fumes were so bad my eyes would burn, the formaldehyde gas would be coming out of the wood. The solution? activated carbon filters, just take a few pounds of activated charcoal and put it in a mesh bag. Place the mesh bag on a fan or in a AC duct, the better air-flow the better it will work. The carbon will absorb the Formaldehyde gas and lock it away, and the solution only cost me 20$.

Anyone know a contact in the Sierra club to tell them this?

[rumpel]

1. Sierra Club

http://www.sierraclub.org/contact/

[don954]

3. i emailed it to the general info address

but i would like an email address for someone working on this project, if anyone has a contact, please let me know. This is so basic i dont know what they are thinking, its a standard in organic chemical filtration of air, water, and just about everything else for many, many years.

[Jara sang]

2. Winnebago has a "Toxic Tin Can" model.

[Why Syzygy]

4. Don't know if this helps .

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052106G.shtml

Sierra Club spokesman Chris Smith said people living in FEMA trailers and suffering from the effects of formaldehyde, "have a right to know what is happening to them."


What about the EPA?

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=4643952

Paul and Melondy Stewart say tests show there's formaldehyde inside their trailer, at levels two times what is considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.


Sierra Club is suggesting limiting temperature and humidity? There is no mention of the charcoal solution, but there is a testing kit.

http://www.sierraclub.org/gulfcoast/formaldehyde_test.pdf

Don't you think the EPA should get involved in this?

[don954]

5. yes, but you know they wont

and i expect to hear that Rush Limpballs is calling the Katrina refuges crybabies any day now for saying something about it..:crazy: