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Last week Target, the nations fifth largest retailer announced a comprehensive plan to reduce and eliminate PVC plastic from its products and packaging. The announcement will have a major impact on Target's packaging operations where PVC is commonly used in clamshell type packaging.

Minneapolis-based Target has used its size and buying power as a way to get suppliers to reduce unnecessary packaging.

The retailer targeted suppliers using the often tough to open "clamshell" style packaging asking them to switch to greener options.

Today Greenpeace Russia sent an open letter to the top management of the Solvay Company that is planning construction a PVC production facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. Greenpeace Russia is expressing its indignation at Solvay concealing environmentally important information as well as at the fact that an expert of Greenpeace was not given access to a Solvay factory regardless of an agreement between the company and the environmental NGO.