HazMatters
Edie Everette
Hazardous Waste Management Program
A clever comic book about hazardous waste features colorful illustrations and interactive activities to encourage safety and health.
Edie Everette’s HazMatters (Porque los productos tóxicos son peligrosos) comic book cleverly reveals the many ways household hazardous waste intersects with our everyday lives. Printed in an 8.5-inch by 11-inch full-color format, its pages are covered with vibrant illustrations and interactive activities, such as simple recipes for making nontoxic cleaning solutions and soaps with common household ingredients. Full of useful information, it explains, for example, why you shouldn’t put hazardous materials in the garbage and where you should take them instead.
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My story is about reciprocity—if we care for our environment it cares back, and vice versa. It is about stretching milliseconds of impulse control in order to provide a future. It is about a challenge to become a bigger person after looking at a comic book. It is about how the universe calls out to us, and whether we choose to listen. It is about getting under someone’s skin by creating sugar to help the medicine go down. It is a story about the ways humor, beauty and love can root us in reality and transcendence. – Edie EveretteEverette is a visual artist, cartoonist, and writer impassioned by culture and politics. To request a free copy of HazMatters, call the Household Hazards Line at (206) 296-4692.
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Hazardous Waste Management Program
Hazardous materials are a social issue because the ways we use, store, and dispose of them affect public health and the wellbeing of our environment. 4Culture and King County’s Local Hazardous Waste Management Program came together to commission a comic book and a short film to raise awareness and show how toxins impact public health and environmental…
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