Toxicity

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The weight of the instrumentation on “Aerials” captures a sense of exhaustion that spills over into Tankian’s delivery. Having wrestled through his share of abolitionist praxis and scatological humor, he falls, drained, to the reminder that the world still exists even after it’s been defined. These songs, where System of a Down shift away from agitprop and plunge into numbing despair, comprise Toxicity’s gleaming emotional core. It’s that rare artifact among commercially heavy music: a nu-metal band that gets tired, and funnels its fatigue into its most compelling performances. System of a Down let their motor run out. After firing everybody up, they offer solace for the spent. A recent analysis by the low-profit open-access data company Material Research for the non-profit Coming Clean found that, since 2010, there have been at least 40 chemical incidents worldwide involving vinyl chloride and PVC. These have occurred at 29 facilities globally, almost half of which are in the US. Fires, leaks and explosions killed at least 71 people worldwide and injured 637 in the 40 incidents. But even these are not enough to sustain the demand and uses for vinyl. Vinyl has always been preferred because it is cheaper to produce, and it is also a very durable material and versatile for virtually limitless applications that other materials can never measure up to. Searching for fresh air, Bennett and her husband recently moved across the river to Lake Charles. They’re living there as they make plans to move even further from Mossville, since pollution still travels from Westlake plants to Lake Charles.

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System of a Down's Toxicity is my favorite album. It is their cleanest, most balanced and straightforward album out, all songs harmoniously being played after each other in perfect unsion. First, there is a risk of damaging the machine before its useful life elapse. Vinyl destroys the optics of the laser plotter corroding the metal, which further destroys the motion control system. Volatile Vinyl: The New Shower Curtain's Chemical Smell Finding Safer Alternatives to Vinyl and Phthalates Following the derailment, according to the Ohio Department of Health, East Palestine residents reported headaches, coughing, fatigue, irritation and burning of the skin. A whole month after the derailment, seven CDC investigators that had formed part of a team conducting house-to-house interviews in the area also became ill. Is rejecting physical media and embracing streaming the answer? This is the wrong way of framing the issue, as digital media is physical media, too. Although digital audio files seem virtual, they rely on infrastructures of data storage, processing and transmission that have potentially higher greenhouse gas emissions than the petrochemical plastics used in the production of more obviously physical formats such as LPs – to stream music is to burn coal, uranium and gas.

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Toxic-Free Future’s report found that, of the 373,262 US residents that live within three miles of a vinyl chloride, PVC manufacturing or PVC waste disposal facility, 63 per cent are people of colour. The report also found that these residents earn 37 per cent below the national average and 27 per cent are children, compared to the national average of 22 per cent – infants and children are particularly vulnerable to exposure to toxic chemicals. For the latest news and to get involved, visit the Center for Health Environment and Justice PVC-Free Campaign. Videos

SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity (reissue) Vinyl at Juno Records.

Because phthalates are semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), not volatile organic compounds (VOCs), they are not accounted for in most indoor air quality (IAQ) tests, which focus only on VOCs. Thus, vinyl products can obtain IAQ certifications even though they leach phthalates, whose contributions to reproductive-system impairment include infertility, testicular damage, reduced sperm count, suppressed ovulation, and abnormal development and function of the testes and male reproductive tract in laboratory animals. They are known carcinogens in laboratory animals. Our full range of studio equipment from all the leading equipment and software brands. Guaranteed fast delivery and low prices. It is a classic case of environmental injustice and racism,” says Schade. He notes that studies of Mossville have documented that residents were exposed to elevated concentrations of dioxins, while dioxins were also found in the food supply chain. Craft vinyl appears harmless, and some schools of thought actually claim that it is harmless unless heated. This has given rise to a debate on whether it is toxic or not. Tankian’s language breaks down on “ Aerials.” He gestures toward a spiritual unity among humans: “We’re one in the river/And one again after the fall,” he sings, rendering all of life as the few seconds between the top and bottom of a waterfall. At the chorus, he stresses every syllable and lapses into barely legible syntax. “When you lose small mind/You free your life,” he urges, a sentence that hints at psychedelic enlightenment, escaping predispositions through biochemical intervention—free your mind, man. Except it’s not the mind that gets free: The mind falls away and the person who’s lost it rises away from needing it at all. This isn’t mind-expansion. It’s mind-sloughing. No wonder the grammar’s bad.Unseld adds: “Every step of the fossil fuel plastics lifestyle is deadly, so bans on individual chemicals and products won’t be enough because they’ll just replace it with something else. That’s why they moved lead out of paint into plastic toys.” She says fossil fuel companies will continue to scrape the barrel for chemicals – especially once energy is decarbonised – to create plastic. While vinyl is widely used both at home, in schools, construction, automotive, and manufacturing sectors, the material itself is toxic. It is bad not only for human health but the ecosystem as well.

Toxic vinyl chloride is a widespread environmental injustice Toxic vinyl chloride is a widespread environmental injustice

Westlake Chemical released the most vinyl chloride, reporting 185,807 pounds of air discharges; followed by Formosa Plastics with 86,595 pounds and Occidental Chemical with 59,679 pounds. According to the report, these numbers may be an undercount of pollution caused by Occidental Chemical and Westlake Chemical, since both companies have failed to disclose their production volumes to the public, calling them “confidential business information.”According to research from the World Health Organization , all humans have small levels of dioxins in the body from general exposure, which aren’t necessarily a cause for alarm. Chronic exposure, however, has been linked to impairment of the immune system, nervous system, endocrine system and reproductive system. These effects are more pronounced in sensitive individuals, such as the elderly and young children, though infants are most vulnerable. Decided to go with this one this month for nostalgia's sake, it's been at least 15 years since I've heard this album. Still blows my mind how much Serj Tankian sounds like Will Ferrell when he does the whisper voice.