Point/Counterpoint: Is Corian TreeHugger Green?

The first of a new series where we try to look at both sides of an issue.

Collin recently asked this question and concluded "it hasn't earned a TreeHugger thumbs up." Corian is a proprietary product invented by Dupont, and in an era where specifiers and users demand transparency, their "environmental case for Corian" is a study in mushiness and meaninglessness; the stuff could be made of compressed baby seals for all one can tell from their website. On the basis of their vague statements of green-ness one could only come to the sam...