What You Should Know

In one year, the average household uses.......

• 28.7 Litres of chemical cleaners....enough to fill your kitchen sink 4 1/2 times.
• 70 plastic chemical bottles....16m long when laid end to end.
• 49.7 rolls of paper towel....over 1km

In one year in North America 144 million households use......

• 4.1 Billion litres of cleaning chemicals each year...filling 25.8 million bathtubs.
• 9.8 Billion plastic chemical bottles....laid end to end stretching from Toronto to San Francisco 2,500 times.
• 7.2 Billion rolls of paper towel....enough to circle the earth 179,000 times.
• And spends $88 Billion on chemical cleaning products.

Did you know, that...........

• 1 in 2 people will have some form of cancer in their lifetime
• Within 26 seconds after exposure to chemicals such as cleaning products, traces of these chemicals can be found in every organ in the body.
• Women who work at home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than those who work away from home. The 15-year study concluded it was as a direct result of the much higher exposure rate to toxic chemicals in common household products!
• Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involved in poisoning.
• Cancer rates have continued to increase every year since 1970. Brain cancer in children is up 40% in 20 years. Toxic chemicals are largely to blame.

And did you know.....

• Except in the case of foods, drugs or pesticides, companies are under no legal or regulatory obligation to concern themselves with how their products might harm human health.