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Flame retardant chemicals can cause serious health risks—and they only slow fire by a few seconds, says researcher
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Flame retardant chemicals can cause serious health risks—and they only slow fire by a few seconds, says researcher

by Martin Sharkey, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain House fires are many people’s worst nightmare. But chemicals created decades ago to protect people’s homes from out of control flames opened our front doors to a new menace: toxic chemicals. Ones that we are consistently exposed to in our homes, offices and vehicles. Plastics are everywhere...