Opting Out of Toxic Checkbook Covers

Have you ever considered your checkbook cover? If you’re like me, you might be so accustomed to paying bills online that you don’t even remember where your checkbook is. But I’m thinking about mine today because of an article I just read in Environmental Health News. Apparently, Deluxe, the main provider of personal checks for most of America, has reached a settlement to remove a toxic phthalate called DEHP from its plastic checkbook covers by June 2015. According to the organization Healthcare Without Harm, DEHP “can damage the liver, kidneys, lungs and reproductive system — particularly the developing testes….” And the chemical is listed by the State of California as a carcinogen and male developmental toxicant.
Opting Out
Deluxe may be reformulating its covers, but who knows what chemical they will substitute for DEHP. And the covers are still non-biodegradable plastic. So I called Deluxe … Read the rest