Coffee Talk

With Your Host Burbanmom

After a relatively mild winter cold season, it seems that the Dap-inator has been hit with good one. She spent all day yesterday on the couch with a fever and a nose that was running faster than Marion Jones on crack.

Anyhoo, that puts me on extra-super-deluxe-hover-like-a-hummingbee-Mommy-nurse-duty, which, as you can imagine, leaves little or no time to blog. So rather than stay up past my bedtime (10pm) to write a post, I'm gonna leave it all up to you. I'll give you a topic:

You have recently decided to give up your non-stick dishes due to the health risk they pose. Knowing these risks, do you give them to someone else to use or toss them in the landfill?

I'm assuming there will be two basic schools of thought here:

1. You give them away because someone out there will take them either: due to ignorance; not believing/caring about the PFOAs; or just having an absolute need for something to cook in. You assume that by allowing them to be purchased used, you will be decreasing the demand for new non-stick products.

2. You landfill them because you can't stand the thought of someone else being exposed to toxic fumes due to your actions. And because PFOA will last only +-50 years you assume leaching into groundwater won't be an issue.

If you do give them away, to whom would you give them? Would you want to give them to someone in your family? Your friends? Your neighbors? Or just someone you don't know?

If you do give them away, would you tell the recipient what you know about PFOA? Even if you freecycled them, garage saled them or Goodwilled them?

So there's your topic for today. Discuss amongst yourselves. I'm gonna go snuggle my little one.