This emerges from a report Greenpeace launches in Germany today, after the measurements of the air in a variety of sports shops in Germany, Taiwan, Italy and Sweden, in addition to Norway.
– 100 times higher
– The air in Oslo shops to Norrøna and Haglöfs contains PFC concentrations over 100 times higher than in normal outdoor air, says Truls Gulowsen, managing director of Greenpeace in Norway.
– In a shop in Germany, coming Haglöfs’ shop in Oslo worst of all stores where the air is investigated, he said.
Gulowsen puts this in the context of the sale of outdoor clothing impregnated with PFC and PFC, also known as fluorocarbons.
25. February wrote Dagsavisen that it still used fluorocarbons for making many of the most popular turklærne waterproof. This emerges from another survey conducted by Greenpeace. Out of 40 products studied were found fluorocarbons in 36 of them.
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– How hazardous is the air in sporting goods stores?
– We do not know, but we know that it contains chemicals that belong to a group where many drugs are toxic, and including carcinogens, responding Gulowsen.
– Why is there such substances also in outdoor air?
– Because of the pollution. These industrially produced chemicals are everywhere on the globe.
Organizer phasing
Several of the producers told Dagsavisen in February, that they are working to find alternatives to fluorocarbons. Both Norrøna and Haglöfs aims to phase out the use during 2020.
Gulowsen think this is too little ambitious.
– 2020 is too late. Other competitors have already phased out the use of fluorocarbons or will do so in the course of 2018. There are also those who have never used fluorocarbons, he points out.
The air inside the sporting goods stores can be potentially hazardous for the employees, strengthens the need for both Norse, Haglöfs and other urgently stop using fluorocarbons, believes Gulowsen. He does not believe the problem is limited to the surveyed stores.
– It is likely that other sports shops selling PFC impregnated clothing suitable for hiking the same problem, says Gulowsen.
Sarah Skogberg Cuadra’s press officer in Haglöfs. She could not comment on the new Greenpeace report yesterday.
– We have not seen the report yet, she explains.
– We only know that they have measured the air for fluorocarbons including in our store in Oslo and Stockholm. How measurements are made, we do not know. There is not a standard instrument for such measurements, she adds.
Dagsavisen also made several attempts to get comments from Norrøna the new Greenpeace report, without success with it.
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