Dear President Obama,
The parents of the United States respectfully petition you to lead by example and remove the toxic tire mulch from the White House Playground. A growing body of evidence suggests that the carcinogens and chemicals in tire mulch pose a very real health threat to our nation's children.
NBC News recently aired an investigative piece on the potential health dangers associated with the use of tire mulch in playgrounds:
www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/rubber-mulch-safe-surface-your-child...
Visit www.synturf.org for information from toxicologists, scientists and doctors at Mt. Sinai who are sounding the alarm. For the same reasons we avoid pesticides, BPA and phthalates, we should be prudent about toxic tire mulch.
Sincerely,
Concerned Parents