It seems to me that there should be some documented evidence of Hexavalent Chrome before insisting that either Bullseye or Uroboros stop making green glass which is what Chrome does.

There are a number of ways to introduce chrome. One can use Potassium or Sodium dichromate. One could use Lead Chromate, one could use Chrome oxide but that's a hard way to get it melted. These melts don't tend to gas off quite the way the arsenate or cadmium melts do.

In either factory, between the red and the green glasses, it would account for more than half of either companies product and will be financially crippling if that's the goal. My problem is that there is insufficient evidence to warrant stopping the use of Chrome at this point. DEQ is not exactly washing itself in glory over the way they've handled this so far and I'm not impressed with either the Bullseye or the Uroboros response either but I think that having actual evidence is appropriate before shooting the alleged offenders in a perp walk.

I would also take note that the European union has Chrome in its sights in glass at the landfill level. That's pretty far down the carcinogenic food chain.

I would still love to see both companies installing Donaldson Torit filters yesterday. It's the right thing to do. When we have people like Dave Munro from DEQ saying they couldn't work- which is just flat out wrong, that doesn't lend credibility to the investigation. This is becoming more like a Keystone Cops process with potentially deadly results. I further find the comments coming in that say South Portland is just a redlined neighborhood and people living there should just move to be perhaps the most troubling aspect of this at all. That's just shameful. Stopping toxins now is important just as quitting smoking today increases your chances of living longer and better. Portland deserves better.