Target, the fifth-largest retailer in The States and a company you can compare with Wal-Mart, has announced that they want to be the latest retailer to reduce the amount of toxic materials in some of the products they’re selling. They want to reduce, and finally eliminate polyvinyl chloride (more known as PVC) from a range of their products and their packaging.
The first products they want to ‘improve’ are the infant and children's products, shower curtains, tableware and packaging. An according to what the company said, there are already several lines of products that are completely PVC-free, including children's eating utensils, lunchboxes and soft-sided coolers. And by January 2008 they want to make baby bibs and baby changing tables PVC-free and by the fall of 2008 also with the toys.
With this Target want to follow his big rival Wal-Mart, because they already achieved its two-year goal of eliminating PVC from packaging for their own products. Target is also doing this because the government makes regulations and puts pressure on the retailers to ban toxins.
In addition with their plan, Target announced the creation of a "Sustainable Products Guide". With this guide they want to educate the consumers about the risks of PVC. PVC is a plastic product that is softened by an array of chemicals, and these chemicals in the PVC products release several toxins likes throughout their life cycles.
Dimitri Delbeke
Source: GreenBiz.com
Dimitri Delbeke
Source: GreenBiz.com
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Target's plan to follow the footsteps of Wal-Mart is certainly a step forward. They want to eliminate PVC from packaging for its house-brand line of products. PVC is a dangerous plastic product, it release toxins like mercury, phthalates and dioxin throughout their life cycles.
Target's plan to follow the footsteps of Wal-Mart is certainly a step forward. They want to eliminate PVC from packaging for its house-brand line of products. PVC is a dangerous plastic product, it release toxins like mercury, phthalates and dioxin throughout their life cycles.
it's a good step forward that they want to eliminate pvc in the products. Expesialy in children and baby products because their immune-system isn't as strong as older people so they could have side effects from the pvc.
it's a good step forward that they want to eliminate pvc in products. it's expesialy good that they want to eliminate it for children and baby products because little children don't have a strong immune-system like the adults.
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