PROTESTERS TARGET PVC
Lisa Ann Pinkerton
May 28, 2007

Last week, America's 6th largest retailer Target was handed 10 thousand signatures at its Annual Shareholders meeting. The petition urges the company to phase out the use of PVC plastic in the products it sells. Lisa Ann Pinkerton reports:

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Protesters at Target's Shareholder meeting wore white hazmat suits as they urged the company to phase out PVC, or Polyvinyl Chloride. PVC is used in packaging, shower curtains, teething rings and other consumer products it sells. Mark Schade is a spokesman for the Center for Health Environment and Justice:

We're concerned about PVC because from manufacture to disposal PVC is the worst plastic for our health and environment. Releasing chemicals that are known to cause cancer, learning disabilities, reproductive health problems, birth defects and many other health issues.

Target says it's asking its suppliers to look into alternatives for PVC but the company is reluctant to set a timetable for phasing out the plastic. Other companies, such as Wal-Mart, Ikea, Johnson and Johnson, Lego, Nike, Microsoft have already begun the process.

For the Environment Report, I’m Lisa Ann Pinkerton.

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