I started making this list of places where I have personally sensed airborne fiberglass. However, as I paid attention to my surroundings and the air quality, I realized that there is fiberglass in the air all over. Inside the air ducts where air blows past it, vented out attics, behind the walls where the updraft and negative pressure makes an air current inside homes through outlets and light fixtures, around car engines, above ceiling panels etc. No wonder people cannot sense it. They rarely get out of it and since there is no money to be made by studing the effects of airborn fiberglass, it gets ignored. I have also linked benzene, a low-lying volatile organic compound (VOC) and phthalates, a semi-volatile organic compound (SVOC) as common chemicals to all of my reactions. Fiberglass insluation emits VOCs.
- Several churches
- A Jewish synagogue
- A flea market in an old brick building
- Large chain pet store (fiberglass lined ducts)
- Large furniture store chain (fiberglass lined ducts and ripped flex ducts)
- An art center that teaches dance and other types of art
- An old tavern restaurant
- Grosery Store
- A newly renovated modern movie theater (because no one thinks to update the fiberglass lined ductwork)
- An old one screen movie theater
- A pizza shop in a shopping center
- Many Restaurants
- A high school
- Parts of a univercity
- The gymnasium at a medical school
- A bank
- Many US post offices
- Parts of a large hospital
- Beach houses (several)
- A hardware store located in an old building
- The lobby of an expo center
- Parts of some university campuses
- A lot of Industrial buildings
- A crossfit gym
- Residential houses
- Car (until mouse nest was removed)
- Some brand new cars
- An ice cream shop in a small quaint town
- A hair salon in a shopping center built in the 1970s
- Popular Steak House in new building with insulation lined ducts
- A township building
Do you have asthma? Do you know someone who does? Do you ever wonder what caused it?
A pile of fiberglass laying on the ground. It's everywhere.
The last time I went to see a movie the air in the theater was so bad I felt sick for three days after. I should have left the minute I walked in, however the movie was Star Wars and my husband was way too excited to just leave. The theater had been renovated a couple of years prior, however people rarely think to replace the air system. The ductwork was fiberglass lined and it was blowing into the air.
