Moth Balls

eabc5454 wrote:
Chemical Makeup

The two main ingredients used in mothballs are naphthalene or para-dichlorobenzene. When these ingredients are trapped in an enclosed space, the fumes turn into gas as they mix with the surrounding air. Pests die after inhaling the gas. If the container is not airtight, however, the fumes escape and lead to long-term exposure which might cause health problems. The smell and residue of the gas remains on clothes or wood for an indefinite amount of time, even after the source is gone. Washing the clothes or airing out the drawers may not dissolve the smell. The EPA has now mandated that using mothballs in a way other than specified on the package label is illegal because of the harm they can cause humans, pets and the environment.



Read more: http://www.ehow.com/info_8585260_moth-balls-harmful.html#ixzz2h3fCJ0vc

Please do yourself a favor and find a less toxic alternative.

would that be the same EPA that took diazanon off the shelf and decided I either had to put up with an infestation of flying ants or pay a professinal exterminator several hundred dollars a year? No thanks, I'll keep using the mothballs. And please, don't try and do me any favors, I'm a big boy and I can take care of myself. I don't need big brother to try and fix everything for me, the're not even capable of handling their own problems let alone mine.