The German-American Steuben Parade is held in New York City every third Saturday in September starting at noon, and runs along Fifth Avenue from 64th Street to 86th Street. For over 50 years, the parade has celebrated the German culture with crazy costumes, floats, music, and dance.
âsomeone discovered that cycling water bottles (or bidons) contained a toxic chemical called BPAâ. I donât think anybody needed to âdiscoverâ it. If I recall correctly, BPA is deliberately added to the plastic to make it less hard and brittle, more squeezy. What was discovered is that BPA can be an estrogen mimic.
In St Petersburg, some of these samples were requested by local residents concerned over the quality of their water. The analysis of the discharge from toxic waste dump into of the river Izhora (a tributary of St Petersburg's Neva river) revealed a variety of toxic substances in very high concentrations. The water contained substances like heavy metals, PCBs, phthalates and phenols, exceeding by dozens and hundreds of times the maximum allowed concentrations.