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Product Review from Environmental Building News
December 1, 2007
Migrations Biobased Tile from Armstrong
The green building community loves to hate vinyl composition tile (VCT). Along with the PVC and phthalate plasticizer content (about 15% by weight), VCT requires regular waxing and periodic stripping to maintain an attractive, protective wear layer. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released from just one cycle of stripping and waxing VCT, according to Greg Norris of the Harvard School of Public Health and Sylvatica, Inc., exceeds the VOCs from the entire production supply chain of VCT manufacture. Despite all that, the affordability of VCT and the familiarity building owners have with it in institutional, retail, and commercial buildings keeps this resilient flooring option extremely popular....
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