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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | As the coronavirus pandemic spread through the world in 2020 and 2021, the shift to work |
0:13.2 | from home ushered in a home renovation boom. |
0:17.2 | Basement dens became offices. |
0:19.6 | Bathrooms got an overhaul. |
0:22.1 | Bedrooms were split into. |
0:24.4 | For their COVID home reboots, many Americans turned to a kind of cheap flooring that is |
0:30.4 | commonly sold at DIY stores. |
0:33.7 | And as a home depot commercial explained, setting up vinyl flooring in your own home is |
0:38.6 | very easy. |
0:40.2 | Vinyl flooring is a great option for just about every interior living space in your home. |
0:45.1 | The flooring we're installing today is Life's Truth Rigid Core vinyl plank flooring. |
0:50.4 | Life's truth is the latest innovation in vinyl flooring. |
0:53.1 | It's rigid. |
0:54.1 | Vinyl flooring is seeing a surge of growth boosted in part by pandemic error renovations. |
1:00.2 | The industry calls it luxury vinyl tile. |
1:04.1 | But in reality, it is layer upon layer of thin plastic, a heavily polluting concoction |
1:11.8 | made with fossil fuels. |
1:14.3 | And very often, that plastic is produced using forced labor. |
1:36.5 | This is intercepted. |
1:55.6 | I'm Mara Vistindal, a senior reporter with the Intercept. |
1:59.6 | I write about national security and technology. |
2:03.1 | And for the past few months, I've been investigating the connection between vinyl flooring and |
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