vacuum cleaner without fiberglass

 Hi, Does anyone know of any [upright] vacuum cleaner that definitely
does
NOT use "fiberglass" in any of the filters? (by, "filters," I mean
anywhere.... the bags...the hepa filter.... the secondary
filter....anywhere, etc.)

Thanks

 

This is Turtle.

You got me here tring to figuring out why you would ask a question like this. I
know it may be none of my business but I got to ask.

TURTLE

 
I'm interested too. There may be some over reaction her or a genuine
allergy to the fibers.
When the light is right and you work with fiberglass batts you will
see clouds of tiny glass fibers floating up from the product. These
fibers are carcinogenic and irritative to the lungs, eyes, and skin.
There was a time when asbestos was thrown about in a similar manner.
In recent years fiberglass regulations have increased because of the
known hazard. Someday, fiberglass may be in the same status as
asbestos is now.

 On 26 Nov 2004 02:51:20 -0800, someone wrote:


Maybe or maybe not.  Only time will tell.  I have been in fiberglas
factories where the "Pink Stuff" was being made.  None of the
personnel on the shop floor, including the bosses, was at all
concerned with the fibers in the air (and there were lots).  We asked,
and were told that "studies had been done", and told detailed info
about the size of the fibers and how the body handles them.

Now, maybe in the future these will be proved to be wrong.  But with
the modern day awareness of what happened with huge damage awards over
asbestos and PCBs, and the risk-averse liability fearing behavior of
corporations given the litigious US legal climate, it is totally
implausible to me that anyone would be doing this on purpose.  More
likely it seems that the FIRST THING that a fiberglass company would
have done after seeing the results of asbestos lawsuits, would be "we
better check the fiberglass".

Whatever,

-v.


Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file.

 v wrote:


Um..... .... .........[some silence]

[breaking the silence] .....whatever

so anyway......(again)... does ANYBODY know of a vacuum cleaner that does
NOT use fiberglass in their filters?