Toxic chemicals might be lurking on your home. But where are they? You might think that this is not that dangerous, but the ink printed on mailing labels and cardboard boxes might be deadlier than you think.
Ink typically makes up only about 1% of the total weight of packaging, according to Lumi, a company that creates packaging and manages supply chain logistics for brands. (Lumi sometimes receives questions about possible toxins in ink, and recently published a comprehensive, well-researched blog post written by staffer Ian Montgomery about the subject.) But even though inks are tiny in terms of volume, they often contains high concentrations of heavy metals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are bad for both the environment and human health.
While the risk to customers, who shop online and interact with these packages directly, is relatively low, people who work at warehouses and post offices who come in contact with larger volumes of ink daily are in a more dangerous position.
More details about this over at Fast Company.
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