BuildingGreen.com on Polystyrene Insulation

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm in Energy, Energy Conservation, Insulation, Products + Materials, Toxicity.

Oh, curse the green product tradeoff! Case in point: Polystyrene insulation is oh so effective at keeping the heat in…or out. Pity about the toxic benzene required to manufacture it and the nasty toxic and bioaccumulating HBCD (hexabromocyclododecane) it contains.

Saving Energy = Good, but Toxic Chems = Bad. And what’s the solution? Perhaps it’s time to make friends with thicker walls insulated with less toxic but slightly less effective materials. Check out the original article at BuildingGreen.com

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  1. Andreas Says:

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