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Target stores are filled with chemicals linked to cancer! Target sells lots of products made from or packaged in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), the poison plastic. These products are dangerous from start to finish. Wanna find out more about why we don't love PVC? Check out Sam Suds, Poison Investigator, courtesy of our friends at the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. The site is a real eye-opener.
Safe, cost effective alternatives to toxic PVC are available today. So:
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Send a message to Target right now and ask them to phase out the poison plastic! Thanks!
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So, what's so dangerous (in reality) about using PVC? The spam doesn't specify what, nor what substitutes out there exist.
And is this "Center for Health, Environment and Justice" really all as it's cracked up to be?
My Skepty-senses are tingling.
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If PVC is truly as villainous as these claims suggest, why are the pipes that feed my rainwater tank made of the stuff?
And the "Number 3" plastic - which is PPVC (plasticised polyvinyl chloride) - actually is recyclable. See here.
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Target Action - Phase Out PVC! YouTube video showing a protest at Target. The producers of Sesame Street willporbably ho t be thrilled
The web site of the campaign They don't say why they picked Target as the object of their campaign, even though they have concerns about many other retailers. Maybe it's just next on their list "Since the campaign was founded, we have worked with and convinced Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson, Wal-Mart, and Crabtree & Evelyn to phase out their use of PVC in packaging. "
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I work for a OEM who makes equipment for the plastics industry. Pelletizing and recycling equipment. We have a lab on premisis. The only time we consider PVC to be a problem is if it burns....then it makes a lethal gas. I have never come across anything, other than these links, that say there is a danger with PVC otherwise.
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Isn't it linked with the ban on hydrogen dioxide?
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quote:Originally posted by lazerus the duck: Isn't it linked with the ban on hydrogen dioxide?
HO2? Not HO3?
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Nick, I was actually thinking that (in honor of the season) lazerus meant HoHo, while I was suggesting HoHoHo instead.
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quote:Originally posted by skeptic: Damn. I thought that Target had introduce a new line of PVC, er, will we call it 'clothes' for night wear.
That was my thinking too... the paint-on type can be particularly, erm, interesting...
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quote:Originally posted by Seaboe Muffinchucker: Nick, I was actually thinking that (in honor of the season) lazerus meant HoHo, while I was suggesting HoHoHo instead.
Seaboe
In that case you would want (HO)2 for HOHO (which is actually hydrogen peroxide and usually written H2O2), or (HO)3 for HOHOHO, which I don't think exists.
Nick (yes, I know it's a joke and I'm not being PDD here)
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That's two pages of Google. I'm really not cared to do more. I tried Quackwatch and CSI (not that one), and they had nothing on it.
I suspect there's absolutely no harm whatever in Target stocking products made from PVC, but perhaps some reason that manufacturers should be choosing other methods.
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