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Denmark poses big questions over plastic substitutes for leather

30/01/2014
The Danish government has issued companies in Denmark with a new set of guidelines warning them about the possible dangers of phthalates. Phthalates are widely used to make plastic materials, especially PVC, flexible, soft and pliable, “much-coveted properties”, according to the paper.

This makes phthalate-containing PVC useful for many purposes, the Danish government has said, and it listed so-called “artificial leather products” as a specific example.

One of the main aims of the 32-page document (please see this link Denmark questions PVC) is to help buyers in Danish companies and companies overseas that export to Denmark to limit and, in time, eliminate phthalates from the products they source or sell. It talks of a “market conversion” that is taking place, partly because of REACH legislation to regulate chemicals in the European Union.

There is an easy solution for consumer product companies that have used PVC and other plastics as a substitute for leather in shoes and other applications: to substitute the substitutes with leather.




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