11 May Carpets – A Petri Dish of Bacteria
60% of homes in the US have carpets. They also cover the floors of our schools and businesses. Children play for hours on them, infants crawl on them. New homeowners breathe in that "new carpet smell" proudly! STOP! You are smelling chemicals! New carpets contain 'volatile organic compounds' aka VOC's. These include toluene, benzene, formaldehyde, ethyl benzene,...