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Choosing Safe Paints and Reducing VOCs

...paints, replacing them with solvent-free or water-based paints, often labelled as low-VOC paints or zero VOC paints. The move towards safe paint has led to a noticeable improvement in indoor air quality since the mid-seventies, and better even in the last decade. But paints based on petrochemical solvents still represe...