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What are those cheap plastic lawn chairs made of? Are they PVC?
I've been doing some research and discovered that lead is used in PVC as a stabilizer. After being exposed to UV light the lead comes to the surface of the PVC. As most people who have had experience with these plastic lawn chairs knows, there is a white powdery substance on the surface after leaving the chairs outside. Is it possible that this is lead leaching out?
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I would almost bet on it.
The chairs are made of out a plastic resin. The white powder substance is the poly-vinyl breaking down.
PVC is flexible, I think. They are plastic, and whatever manufacturing process and ingredients go into PVC, I suspect they go into other plastics as well.
No, its the polymer coat they put on the plastic to make it last longer in the elements wearing off.
I worked in a plastic factory and can guarentee you it has no lead. It is resin residue. They use a mold machine that is hot and pour plastic pellots into it and they melt down and form the shape of the mold. You can mold almost any size of anything and thickness. Some may have to use two molds and melt a seam together.
Do you even know what PVC stands for?
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