[SustainableTompkins] Victory - Sears/Kmart Adopts PVC Phase Out Policy!

[Tony Del Plato]

Yes, We can thank the Center for Health & Environmental Justice, Lois Gibbs
and Mike Shade. Their contact info is:
CHEJ http://www.chej.org/
Lois Gibbs chej at mail.democracyinaction.org
and especially Mike Shade mike at besafenet.com
who coordinated the campaign.
best
Tony


On Dec 13, 2007 11:21 AM, Joey Gates < earthdayithaca at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>  This is great news!
>  Is there anyone we can email a thanks to?
>  Joey
>
>
> Tony Del Plato <tonydelplato at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
> With your help we did it again! *Only one month after announcing our
> Target
> victory, we're proud to announce Sears Holdings (Sears and Kmart) has also
> committed to phasing out PVC, the poison plastic, in their products and
> packaging. *This is a huge victory for CHEJ's PVC Consumer Campaign as
> Sears Holdings, the parent of Sears and Kmart, is the nation's sixth
> largest
> retailer with over $50 billion in sales/year and approximately 3,800
> stores. *Big thanks go out to Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the
> Investor Environmental Health Network, and everyone that signed onto the
> initial letter to Sears back in March'06 for helping to amke this victory
> happen!*
>
> While several retail outlets are now engaging in PVC phase-out policies as
> a
> result of all of our hard work, adding Sears and Kmart to the list is
> remarkably significant: 3 of America's top 6 retailers are now proactively
>
> phasing out PVC!
> *
> Help us continue the incredible momentum in 2008, preventing harm for
> everyone involved in PVC's life cycle. Here's how you can help:*
>
> - Help us leverage these exciting victories by *making a
> tax-deductible donation to this winning
> campaign.
> *
> - *Take action
> * for a healthy tomorrow.
> - *Learn more*about
> this major victory.
>
> Sears' actions will not only help parents looking for safer products but
> also fenceline communities fighting PVC's toxic lifecycle from Louisiana
> to
> China. Edgar Mouton, President of Mossville Environmental Action Now said,
> "Money talks and I hope that the vinyl companies polluting my community of
>
> Mossville, Louisiana are listening to Sears and Kmart, who will stop
> selling
> vinyl products and using vinyl packaging." Mr. Mouton's neighborhood is
> home to no less than 5 vinyl production plants, the largest concentration
> in
> the United States.
>
> When you mention Sears to someone, especially at Christmas time, it
> elicits
> memories of the Sears catologue and toy shopping; Sears holds a place in
> America's collective memory. It is fitting, right, and proper then, that
> Sears Holdings has been willing not only to recognize the potential
> dangers
> and harm caused by some of the products it currently sells, but has made
> the
> right decision to begin ridding its stores of this toxic PVC material.
>
> We hope you will join us in continuing the momentum in 2008.
>
> Yours for a healthy toxic-free future,
>
> Lois Marie Gibbs, Executive Director
> Center for Health, Environment and Justice
>
> --
>
> Mike Schade
> PVC Campaign Coordinator
> Center for Health, Environment and Justice
> 9 Murray Street, Floor 3, New York, NY 10007-2223
> Phone: (212) 964-3680
> Fax: (212) 349-1366
> mike at besafenet.comwww.besafenet.com/pvcwww.chej.org
>
> Sign up for the PVC Action Network, and help us protect our families
> and communities from dangerous chemicals in consumer products. Click
> on "sign up" at www.besafenet.com/pvc
>
> Thanks everyone
> Tony Del Plato
>
>
> --
> May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so
> that
> we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look
> back
> on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
> Albert Einstein
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-- 
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that
we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back
on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein