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.<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Y2u3j9sqlfyiQXZiXezA2qgcs0yeqrdk> * - *Take action<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pS2v1HQdkzfXqCU%2Fycgvw6gcs0yeqrdk> * for a healthy tomorrow. - *Learn more*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NzjmaguwHCoT%2F%2BSf6cUiW6gcs0yeqrdk>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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/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 _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
