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Playgrounds: The Ideal Cancer-Delivery System?

Posted by Christine MacDonald on Jun. 8, 2009, at 12:11 pm

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has endorsed recycling old tires into cushiony playground surfaces like the one slated to go under the “play rocks” in Shaw's planned Tenth Street Park.

Now, it turns out, the agency is having second thoughts, given that tires contain arsenic, cadmium, chromium, mercury and other chemicals known to cause cancer.