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

[Molly Brewton]

Maybe they would know who, in Sears, we can thank.  I think it's very good 
for companies to know that consumers are aware of what they do.

Molly

At 11:43 AM 12/13/2007, you wrote:
>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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>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!
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