{"id":1740,"date":"2013-02-14T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:19:02","slug":"blue-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/blue-vinyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nA Toxic Comedy look at vinyl, the world&#8217;s second largest selling plastic. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand&#8217;s hometown to America&#8217;s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Her parents&#8217; decision to &#8220;re-side&#8221; their house with this seemingly benign cure-all for many suburban homes turns into a toxic odyssey with twists and turns that most ordinary homeowners would never dare to take. The result is a humorous but sobering and uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between consumers and industry. Although the film reveals a complex web of alleged corporate conspiracies and the tragic loss of human life from chemical exposure, BLUE VINYL also poses a refreshingly simple question: &#8220;Is it possible to make products that never hurt anyone at any point of their life cycle when manufactured, when used, or when disposed of?&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Dir. Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold, 98 min., U.S.A., 2002<BR \/>Monday 14, 9:00 PM.<\/P><br \/>\n<strong>Distributor: <\/strong>Molly Ramey at Working Films <a href=\"mailto:mramey@workingfilms.org\">mramey@workingfilms.org<\/a> or (910) 342-9000<br \/>\n<strong>Contact: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluevinyl.org\/\">www.bluevinyl.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluevinyl.org\/animation.htm\">www.bluevinyl.org\/animation.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toxic Comedy look at vinyl, the world&#8217;s second largest selling plastic. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand&#8217;s hometown to America&#8217;s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[10,11,31,47,49,60],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-films-2","tag-conspiracy","tag-consumers","tag-industry","tag-polyvinyl-chrloride","tag-pvc","tag-vinyl","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}