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We’ve made a pledge of toxic chemicals ever tested. Moldex and the our own: Dioxins find their way into our “PVC-Free Pledge.” No PVC. No Extra Cost. food chain and our environment Like other corporations, and if ingested, inhaled or absorbed we’ve taken the “PVC-Free ® Today’s market leaders are in sufficient quantities can alter liver Pledge” to eliminate PVC from integrating environmentally function, harm the immune and reproductive our products and packaging. friendly products into their systems and cause cancer. Moldex has the only complete supply chains. They are part One PVC bottle can render 100,000 recyclable line of PVC-Free hearing and respiratory products. of a broader market trend in bottles unusable. Often PVC is not listed in products Most Moldex products have always been PVC-Free which Australian businesses are and/or packaging—which can lead to and now all Moldex products are PVC-Free. increasingly incorporating safer, more sustainable contaminating other recyclables. All with absolutely no Approximately 7 billion pounds of PVC materials into their operations. They see environ- compromise in quality and mentally preferred purchasing programs as not ® products end up in the trash annually. at no extra cost. So you can only a competitive advantage, but also a win-win upgrade to PVC-Free for free. situation for their customers and future generations. Businesses are phasing-out PVC. And thats is an idea that More and more companies are taking a stand makes sense and is good for PVC-Free against the use of PVC in their products and/or business. PVC-Free and Moldex, “Ideas that makes Sense. packaging: ® Wear Well.®” Toxic chemicals associated “PVC, a material linked to a host of environmental with PVC disposal in landfills and ® concerns, is everywhere—in our industry and in many incinerators have been linked to a wide range of others. And while PVC is not widely banned by health hazards. When PVC is burned in incinerators, legislation, it is a material we voluntarily chose to landfill fires, backyard barrels, building fires, etc., phase-out from Nike brand products.” dioxins and other toxic combustion by-products are formed and released into the air and in ashes. Nikebiz.com Dioxins are among the most potent and long lasting “Microsoft’s most recent initiative is the elimination of PVC from the majority of Microsoft packaging.” Find out more about Moldex’s PVC-Free Pledge Microsoft.com by contacting us at: “We are seeing a new trend: major corporations are : +61 (2) 9836 0511 phasing out PVC and switching to safer and healthier New Zealand: +64 (9) 837 8247 consumer products.” or visit us at www.moldex.com Washington Toxics Coalition ©2009 Moldex-Metric, Inc. All rights reserved. 9701A-771 REV D 2/09