I am throwing out my last surviving Teflon pan today because I read that it just takes 2-5 minutes on the stove top for the chemical in it (PFOA) to leach.  Plus the Environmental Working Group has an entire, not so positive, section devoted to Teflon so it was time to listen.  The reason we haven't gotten rid of our pan is because cast iron was too heavy and we don't seem to know how to fry food in a stainless steel pan.  Cooks we are not, I guess.  My dilemma is that I don't want to recycle this product and I don't want to send it to the landfill.  I'll have to think about this one!