Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I'm Sorry, What??

So, in the midst of this economic crisis I find myself frequently perusing the internet for various coupons, giveaways, sales, etc. I ran across some news today on one of these sites that has literally left me shaking my head in disbelief. This is the first that I've heard of it and I'm passing on this information through the blog so that if anything can be done, here is a portion of my effort. Apparently in an act aimed at preventing lead poisoning, someone has decided that it would be a good idea to ban buying, selling and DONATING secondhand unless these secondhand items have been tested for lead and phthalates. Let's just take a moment to think about the consequences of this law. It means that massive amounts of clothing and toys will be considered hazardous regardless of whether they contain lead until they are proven that they don't. Because of the expense of testing, I think we can safely assume that most of these items will end up in a landfill instead of being available to families that can't afford to pay full price or families that can't afford to pay anything at all.
I have very little information so far on this law that is to go in effect on February 10, but I am going to find out more. Click on this link to read one of the articles. More information can be found on www.babycheapskate.com.


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2 comments:

ssouth said...

So it was fine to bring this stuff into the country and into our homes in the first place, but now we can't resell it? Dumping it all in a landfill and buying all new things certainly isn't going to help matters! Not to mention the minority of things that do contain lead will then just leach into the land and water!

January 7, 2009 at 7:06 PM
moorethatgirl said...

I know, it's crazy. It seems like this bill was rushed through Congress and no one really considered all that would be affected by it.

January 8, 2009 at 8:55 AM

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